Dirt and Flowers
201730" x 40"Archival pigment print
Dirt and Flowers strangely compresses and recedes its depth. The shallow space within these images flattens out when you shift your focus from the dirt to the flowers, with only that carefully-lit shadow snagging you back between them. It can be a formally elegant image, or it can speak just a bit about life, and about the other one - the one that isn’t life - that one. A shallow hole, a small dip towards anxiety in the midst of beauty and vibrance. Built in-studio and shot from 8 feet above.
An Exercise in Formal Composition
This series, An Exercise in Formal Composition, presents nearly identical compositions in different methods of execution, playing with photography’s in-camera ability to flatten, layer, and replicate. Each iteration is constructed around a different slightly off-balance right triangle (A: 34.992° / B: 55.008° / C: 90°). Unlike circles or rectangles or even equilateral triangles, which can naturally occur or are staples of architecture, this specific triangular shape is easily recognized as being a deliberate artistic intervention in each given situation.