Artist’s Statement
I am interested in photography's many relationships to science and to story-telling, to curiosity and to creation. My work relies upon blurring the lines between object and document, it depends upon the performative aspects of the photograph, on the illusion. I enjoy the journey in rearranging found and discarded materials; placing them together, bending them back, covering them in a layer of paint. I find it cathartic. However, without the camera they are just that, a collection of lost objects made messy by the process. It is through the camera's privileged gaze that they are made into something more. With the addition of light (or with the subtraction) despairing, disparate objects become immortalized, iconic, made into relics. The photographed objects become idols of emotion and discovery. The photographs themselves - the embodiment of my adventures, for it is in the photograph, not the process or the object, within which the true adventure lies. I am interested in the emptiness of living and how every want stands just on the horizon. Also, as this gap between form and content continues to widen, I wonder what this will mean for the future of photography, its relationship with it's own history, and the relationship photography has to other artistic mediums.