ARTIST BOOKS
The medium of photography is more often than not a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming the photographic image. I find myself straddling the fence between these two practices as the photographs and photo - based works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes hide and reveal themselves. I can walk down the street one - day and see nothing. I walk down the same street the next day and ten plus images emerge. Some of these images will remain unchanged or un-manipulated, while other images will be transformed, either digitally or physically, into the constructed images. How I determine which photographs will be manipulated and which photographs will remain unchanged is very much an intuitive thing.
Evidence of this creative process can be found in the photo and photo - based images presented in three different artist books “Extractions”, “Re - locations” and “There”. The series of photo and photo – based images found in each of the artist books explores how we are affected by and impact the built environment.
The series of landscape photographs found in the first artist book “Extractions” presents the viewer with a kind of visual dialogue, a visual dialogue between real geographies and virtual landscapes. Each landscape image has been created through a process of digitally extracting and editing elements from existing urban landscape images. Unlike the real urban landscape, these constructed landscapes are occupied by no persons, but are open to everyone. Here in lies the challenge for the viewer of how to enter and maneuver over and through these seemingly inaccessible places.
Like the “Extractions” series, “Re - locations” presents the viewer with the challenge of how to enter a transformed landscape. Although more recognizable as part of the built environment than the landscapes found in the “Extractions” series, the re - assembled landscape images found in “Re - locations” are constructed using edited abstracted elements of urban landscapes images. These re - assembled landscapes cause the viewer to constantly question their relationship to these spaces.
As I move through the built environment, there is a fleeting, but real sense that I am simultaneously experiencing both the exactness and ambiguity of place. The un - manipulated digital photographs found in the artist book, “There” pulls the viewer into this duel experience. The more the viewer engages these images, the more the viewer senses the simultaneous exactness and ambiguity of place.
The medium of photography is more often than not a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming the photographic image. I find myself straddling the fence between these two practices as the photographs and photo - based works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes hide and reveal themselves. I can walk down the street one - day and see nothing. I walk down the same street the next day and ten plus images emerge. Some of these images will remain unchanged or un-manipulated, while other images will be transformed, either digitally or physically, into the constructed images. How I determine which photographs will be manipulated and which photographs will remain unchanged is very much an intuitive thing.
Evidence of this creative process can be found in the photo and photo - based images presented in three different artist books “Extractions”, “Re - locations” and “There”. The series of photo and photo – based images found in each of the artist books explores how we are affected by and impact the built environment.
The series of landscape photographs found in the first artist book “Extractions” presents the viewer with a kind of visual dialogue, a visual dialogue between real geographies and virtual landscapes. Each landscape image has been created through a process of digitally extracting and editing elements from existing urban landscape images. Unlike the real urban landscape, these constructed landscapes are occupied by no persons, but are open to everyone. Here in lies the challenge for the viewer of how to enter and maneuver over and through these seemingly inaccessible places.
Like the “Extractions” series, “Re - locations” presents the viewer with the challenge of how to enter a transformed landscape. Although more recognizable as part of the built environment than the landscapes found in the “Extractions” series, the re - assembled landscape images found in “Re - locations” are constructed using edited abstracted elements of urban landscapes images. These re - assembled landscapes cause the viewer to constantly question their relationship to these spaces.
As I move through the built environment, there is a fleeting, but real sense that I am simultaneously experiencing both the exactness and ambiguity of place. The un - manipulated digital photographs found in the artist book, “There” pulls the viewer into this duel experience. The more the viewer engages these images, the more the viewer senses the simultaneous exactness and ambiguity of place.
Bellow are a number of the images you will find in the different Artist Books