Locational Reactives Statement

This series of pinhole photographs on polaroid 3.25 x 4.25 inch sheet film is about location, and more precisely, my interaction with a location. Because they are shot on polaroid materials they are one of a kind photographs made intuitively through an exploration of places. When I arrive at a possible site I try to forget about making a photograph, instead to move all over the local, exploring and using my senses. Absorbing the milieu first and then afterwards taking an impression home. The making of the photograph is all done there, at the site of the photo; the fastest a photograph can be made. This way I can bring nothing of the rest of the world into the process. I believe this creates a more sacred, connected image and physical object (the print); which will in turn represent a place in a new light.

Triptychs Statement

When I am in the role of traveler, there is nothing I like doing more than standing alone in a foreign place, invisible. I can stand there, lost to the world I know, and simply absorb life as a varied and sprawling web encompassing so many things.

The triptics work is about these expansive & fragmented memories; the busy train station in Florence, a quiet dock out side of Copenhagen… The wide format of my photographs are used to evoke not just my recollection of places and things, but a general feeling of new space, of being outside of home; a way to remember losing your breath.

Travel isn’t always about seeing a new place; it can also be about leaving the world you are involved in. The traveler’s world is rarely a place bogged down with routine.

Chicago Pinholes

This series is a short burst of compositional studies, in honor of the painter Piet Mondrian. Using nothing but my hands to steady these long exposures, small details are lost, only shapes remain as ghosts of themselves. My goal is too shove a three-dimensional world into two-dimensions, simplified and presented for an aesthetic viewing pleasure. He believed that the true aesthetic experience can be transendental.

"The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture."

-Piet Mondrian