Photo Reliquaries
Construction, deconstruction, reconstruction: conveys the opposing forces at work in these pieces.
Since moving to the Los Angeles area, I have begun to understand my productions in the context of the Southern California landscape, with its extremes of disaster and renewal – rolling blackouts paired with brightly lit marquees; water shortages trumped by the verdant gated communities, villas and resorts; an asphalt and concrete exoskeleton built on an infrastructure of fault lines.
My work, similarly, is formed by tearing apart what I have found and putting it back together, without reading the instructions.
Since moving to the Los Angeles area, I have begun to understand my productions in the context of the Southern California landscape, with its extremes of disaster and renewal – rolling blackouts paired with brightly lit marquees; water shortages trumped by the verdant gated communities, villas and resorts; an asphalt and concrete exoskeleton built on an infrastructure of fault lines.
My work, similarly, is formed by tearing apart what I have found and putting it back together, without reading the instructions.