Artist Statement
The medium of photography is more often than not, a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming photographic images. I find myself straddling the fence between these two aesthetic practices, as the photographs and photo - based art works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed image. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes will appear and disappear. I can walk down the street one - day and see nothing, two days later I walk down the same street and multiple images emerge. Some of these images will stand on their own, while other images will be transformed, either digitally or physically into constructed landscape images.
Evidence of this creative process can be found in the series of digital images, entitled “Place / No-Place”. These photo based images explore the abstraction and transformation of the built environment. Remnants of the built environment are exposed in some of the images, while there are other images where the built environment is unrecognizable.
Moving into these transformed spaces is virtually impossible as the built environment has been flipped, blocked or is just an empty void.
The medium of photography is more often than not, a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming photographic images. I find myself straddling the fence between these two aesthetic practices, as the photographs and photo - based art works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed image. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes will appear and disappear. I can walk down the street one - day and see nothing, two days later I walk down the same street and multiple images emerge. Some of these images will stand on their own, while other images will be transformed, either digitally or physically into constructed landscape images.
Evidence of this creative process can be found in the series of digital images, entitled “Place / No-Place”. These photo based images explore the abstraction and transformation of the built environment. Remnants of the built environment are exposed in some of the images, while there are other images where the built environment is unrecognizable.
Moving into these transformed spaces is virtually impossible as the built environment has been flipped, blocked or is just an empty void.