Works » Constructions 1

In the ongoing Constructions 1 series, I'm using elements of painting and photography to create materially explicit apparent realities with a time component. These works are combinations of collage, fabrication media and traditional oil, an element which completes the scene while degrading contact areas of the photographs over time.

Their conceptual framework revolves around the unconscious biological and emotional aspects of perception and memory construction and the ephemeral and dreamlike nature of cultural beliefs, particularly those about tools and artifacts.

I focus on locations that people habitually move through en route to a final destination. Memories of these places tend to be fragmented and distorted, both because of divided attention and because of emotions which grow up around repetition and association with the reasons for the journey. I use the camera to produce large sets of momentary glances; I use paint to confabulate.

I use cell phone and consumer grade cameras and the computer's standard print capability to generate unmodified image artifacts on archival paper. The paint palette is restricted to pigments corresponding to the Epson R1800 UltraChrome set.