Early Works
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
Nostalgia
2014
Shining light on the unreliability of memory, this series presents images intended to evoke a world that never existed. When it comes to process, the materials and tools available relate directly to the concepts explored in the work. The use of film is essential in creating images of objects and structures that feel nostalgic, and this in turn opens the door to examine the selectivity of commemoration even in our own minds. I am interested not in history as fact but in what our beliefs about history reveal within us.
These images were presented together as a single installation piece, unframed prints with hand-written notes arranged on a large, heavily bordered corkboard panel, and woven together with white cotton twill - the threads of Ariadne bleached by nostalgic memory, leading not to the labyrinth’s exit, but instead to an archive of solipsism presented with the rosy sloganeering of a huckster.
Early Works
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
Searching
2014
Centered around the idea of making pictures simultaneously on the east and west coasts of the United States (Washington, DC and Pasadena, CA respectively, February 2014), this project was a meditation on sequencing and how the book form could be adapted to multiple ways of viewing a series of images in relation to one another. Moving through the book, each page spread presents images from either side of this continental divide in increasingly complex gatefolds, allowing a game-like mixing and matching of images as it is navigated. This static web presentation does not do the concept justice,
