… standard definitions of beautiful and ugly get mixed up, and man-made perfection starts to look altogether surreal. — Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily The photographs in Your Mountain Is Waiting document the accelerating suburbanization of Steven B. Smith’s native Utah. Peeling back the layers of westward expansion with equal parts subtlety and irony, Smith captures the new McMansions springing up against the rocky, rust-red mountains and deep blue skies of the West. Smith is equally attentive to the cast of characters that fill these new landscapes—the people that build them, and the people that live in them. An essay by Lydia Millet contextualizes Smith’s photos within a narrative of an American empire in decline.