Artist Statement
I am interested in the interplay between images of the world (both actual and mental) and the physical reality they create and reflect. There are a few questions that frame my work. How do our ideas about the world translate into physical reality? How does the landscape itself reveal our relationship to the environment or socioeconomic issues? How do we form our ideas about the way the world works particularly in an age when much of our experience comes from mediated sources rather than actual experience?
Photography’s unique cultural connection to reality allows me to look at these issues through analogy. Like thoughts, photos are often based on reality but they are framed, contextualized and interpreted in a particular way. They may also be complete fabrications. Images and ideas can both be placed on a continuum from fact to fiction. Wherever they land on the continuum they can be assembled and rearranged to create broader ideas, worldviews.
Continuing the analogy, I move from two dimensions to three and back again as if from idea to physical reality, then feeding back into the idea. I take photographs and make sculptures out of them and also take photographs of the resulting sculptures. The original images, the sculptures and the pictures of the sculptures can all be parts of the work. I like to work on multiple projects at once hoping to discover ways in which we construct our worldviews and the effects they have on physical reality.
Photography’s unique cultural connection to reality allows me to look at these issues through analogy. Like thoughts, photos are often based on reality but they are framed, contextualized and interpreted in a particular way. They may also be complete fabrications. Images and ideas can both be placed on a continuum from fact to fiction. Wherever they land on the continuum they can be assembled and rearranged to create broader ideas, worldviews.
Continuing the analogy, I move from two dimensions to three and back again as if from idea to physical reality, then feeding back into the idea. I take photographs and make sculptures out of them and also take photographs of the resulting sculptures. The original images, the sculptures and the pictures of the sculptures can all be parts of the work. I like to work on multiple projects at once hoping to discover ways in which we construct our worldviews and the effects they have on physical reality.