Paper
201428" x 40"Archival pigment print
For this image, I printed a landscape I'd photographed, then cut a hole in a sheet of notebook paper. I put the notebook paper on top of the printed photo and then rephotographed the whole thing. The result, when printed, is an oddly satisfying exercise in optics, allowing the viewer to relate to the original depth in the landscape, or shift their focus to the depth of the overlaid page, or to instead think about the final image, which is of course a flat printed photograph.
Featured on the cover of The Stranger, June 28-July 4, 2017, Vol. 26, No 44.
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.