My artwork is comprised of photographs, maquettes, drawings, and installation pieces. My portfolio is arranged by bodies of work.
The photographs are about documenting remembered places, experiences, events through reconstruction–the idealization of memory–and about witness to natural phenomena in its interaction with man-made environment. Making the photographs (and photograms) involves assembling drawings, partially completed maquettes, found objects, and paper ephemera from magazines, textbooks, encyclopedias, and reference books.
The maquettes, built for the photographs, then completed as artworks, are most often architectural. Some are also combined with installation projects.
The installations came about as a way to bring the process out of my studio. This work combines the idea that my built or constructed imagery is only completed by the act of photographing it and the and the notion of saudade, a sort of inexplicable nostalgia for something that hasn’t happened or been experienced. “Dazzle Cities” is about train travel – exchanging man-made colossal for the natural sublime, and the intersection of the two. “Coney Island” and “Stone Arch, Exposed” are about layers of memory, anticipation, and vicarious experience through historical excavation. “Perfect City” and “A Faraway City” are about a pure and plangent longing. Each of these pieces were site-specific.
