Dreaming on the Hudson is an ongoing project examining Asian American men in the natural world, using nature - specifically the Hudson River Valley - as a vehicle of escape and rebellion against American imaginations of masculinity and stewardship. Inspired by the Hudson River School’s romanticized paintings of the river valley, I document my friends in open air, reclaiming - and thereby contesting - their stake in the American pastoral. The intimate moments of togetherness reflect a quiet, albeit radical, bucolic dream that subverts the male gaze and the history of land ownership and power.