Artist Statement
I am intrigued by photographs’ seductive power, spurious veracity, and tendency to displace memory and experience - and frustrated by the dead surface of the photographic print, its pretence to be a window on the world, the shattering of that illusion by the smallest flaw, and by prints framed behind glass.
I love rigging, home-made contraptions, convoluted wit, self-imposed difficulties, and over-thinking. I like my work to be unreasonable, absurd, and complicated, particularly when it is political.
Process Statement
My prints are made by hand-coating sensitizers on watercolor paper and using contact negatives, created with my own programming from scans of the original film. The prints are nailed, glued, or screwed to, or suspended from, a wide variety of objects or structures, including mirrors, bed-frames, ceramic tiles, and plastic tubing. For a forthcoming show I am making a clock-like device to move the pieces up and down the gallery wall. I like to use the pieces as installations, with viewer participation.