Artist Statements
General Statement:
The work I have done in the past three years has been highly influenced by French artists and philosophers of the fifties and sixties including Roland Barthes, Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and Henri Lefebvre. last year I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in France and spent the grant period of nine months living and working in Paris, developing a body of work that explored the dualities of the city by photographing visual representations of the extraordinary located in the everyday environment.
The series that resulted include pictures from inside the masoleums of Paris’s major cemeteries, an animation of the concrete crosses outside these structures, a collection of street photographs made at opportune times during my many drifts through the city, and a survey of the advertising images across Paris. Through the holes in the stained glass and in the reflections off the advertisements the surrounding environment is brought forward, made visible--leveled on the plane of photography and using digital techniques, these elements become intertwined and the corresponding dualities of art and nature, of spirit and matter, of the eternal and the circumstantial, blur together to reveal a unity within their tensions. Engaging a relative scale between "looking in and looking out" a veritable becoming occurs, the becoming-image of the world, and the becoming-world of the image. This concept is part of a consistent and evolving aspect of my work; creating subjective interpretations of public places as discussions about how one defines oneself by belonging to, passing through, and departing from such places.
Version City: Paris
This is a book of photography exploring similar subjects through different methods. It is a body of work involved in the creation of new versions of exsisting public places. It is not a series of passive documents, it is an active, haptic, and changeable collection. It is psychogeographic. A detailed and complete statement about this work will be posted soon, please feel free to contact me with any questions in the mean time. All works in "Version city: Paris" were created in 2008-2009 with the help of a generous grant from the Fulbright Program. Thank you.
and Life Continues to be Free and easy...
Cryptic symbols, messages, and happenings found in the liminal spaces of Amsterdam. Real Mysteries cant be solved, but they can be turned into better mysteries.
The work I have done in the past three years has been highly influenced by French artists and philosophers of the fifties and sixties including Roland Barthes, Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and Henri Lefebvre. last year I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in France and spent the grant period of nine months living and working in Paris, developing a body of work that explored the dualities of the city by photographing visual representations of the extraordinary located in the everyday environment.
The series that resulted include pictures from inside the masoleums of Paris’s major cemeteries, an animation of the concrete crosses outside these structures, a collection of street photographs made at opportune times during my many drifts through the city, and a survey of the advertising images across Paris. Through the holes in the stained glass and in the reflections off the advertisements the surrounding environment is brought forward, made visible--leveled on the plane of photography and using digital techniques, these elements become intertwined and the corresponding dualities of art and nature, of spirit and matter, of the eternal and the circumstantial, blur together to reveal a unity within their tensions. Engaging a relative scale between "looking in and looking out" a veritable becoming occurs, the becoming-image of the world, and the becoming-world of the image. This concept is part of a consistent and evolving aspect of my work; creating subjective interpretations of public places as discussions about how one defines oneself by belonging to, passing through, and departing from such places.
Version City: Paris
This is a book of photography exploring similar subjects through different methods. It is a body of work involved in the creation of new versions of exsisting public places. It is not a series of passive documents, it is an active, haptic, and changeable collection. It is psychogeographic. A detailed and complete statement about this work will be posted soon, please feel free to contact me with any questions in the mean time. All works in "Version city: Paris" were created in 2008-2009 with the help of a generous grant from the Fulbright Program. Thank you.
and Life Continues to be Free and easy...
Cryptic symbols, messages, and happenings found in the liminal spaces of Amsterdam. Real Mysteries cant be solved, but they can be turned into better mysteries.
