In the series This is Nowhere, Dawn Roe documents the passing of time in the Smoky Mountains. Roe writes:

In terms of subject matter, I always look first to the common and the everyday. Often this includes familiar interior spaces and, more recently, the surrounding landscape. The portfolio This Is Nowhere relies upon the inherent poetic qualities of the Smoky Mountain region, where the enduring theme of time marks its presence most succinctly. I have no particular affinity to nature, and do not value organic substance over artificial, or imagined. Rather, I am interested in the ephemeral qualities that these materials share with personal processes of recollection and recognition. The slow shifts of the natural world mimic the ever-accumulating matter of our own minds. Our response to both can be simultaneously strange and familiar.