2016 – 2020

The Post-Industrial Objects is a series of works that grapple with the individual's relationship to the vast territory of history through photography, collage, and site-specific installation. In my studio I create photographs packed with visual juxtapositions between objects, texts, and images appropriated from Western culture; they are my riddly mind maps of the past, speculative constellations of historical narratives.

They are responses to technical and formal questions (or challenges) as well: how can I break up photographic space in a way that will both allow objects—from different time periods, manufacturing styles, high and low culture—to resonate with one another while also bringing a heightened attention to each on its own? How can I create depth through flatness? How can scale be used to generate illusion? How can I remove gravity from a photograph?

I place the photographs into installations influenced by the languages of interior design, science-fiction, and local historical contexts (the extruded aluminum I use, for example, is a material used in sci-fi film and tv and to construct COVID barriers); they are responsive to the architecture in which they’re placed and encourage audience engagement and practical use. They contain found and created objects and are frequently sites for further activations or events.