He has shown his work throughout South Korea and the United States and is co-founder with Erik Sanner of the Traffic Cone Occasional. His series “Koans” is a body of work centering on aerial views of traffic cones and is about seeing and about looking, the basis of Photography. As Ansel Adams photographed the landscape of America, Emerick is photographing the traffic cones of America. While the subject matter is amazingly different the intent of each artist is the same: to focus on the chosen subject and explore it fully in order to discover the similarities as well as the differences.