Parks and Parkways
Postcards from Parking Lots
Parks and Parkways as well as Postcards from Parking Lots are both collections of works incorporating the same visual elements of trees in the built environment as Transplanted but reduced to smaller formats. My hope is that these quick studies allow for groupings of images that highlight the common repetition, beauty and irony of formal elements we live with and pass by in our everyday lives.
Transplanted
Transplanted is an exploration of trees which have been placed in suburban environments. These trees decorate our commercial developments with repetitive design combinations, becoming common place to the point of being overlooked. The goal of these images is to allow for a slower, more sustained study of these artificial combinations of young trees, encircled by concrete, asphalt, mulch, gravel and rocks.
Printed on a large scale to support an immersive experience, each image in the series is assembled from portions of 25-50 photographs captured over several minutes to reflect a longer look and encourage a more concentrated viewing experience.
Neighbors
Neighbors is a project to pair nearby homes from similar eras of construction. As communities grew rapidly after WWII neighborhoods where established were homes were built as replicas or mirrored duplicates of each other. As these homes have aged, they have evolved to represent their past and current owners while retaining the skeletons of their initial production. These paired images can serve as historical documents of where and how we live. More importantly, they embody a simplified collection of formal shapes and elements of each home front in communication with each other.
Corners
There is a quiet meditative quality in our bedrooms, our innermost private living spaces. Corners is an ongoing series that utilizes the frame and a square format to present multiple viewpoints over many years of the corners of the bedrooms of my home.
This series focuses on a small portion of our daily surroundings and the ability to open a visual discussion between the infinite combinations of walls, ceilings, light and geometric forms. This dialog and the chance to look harder at these spaces slows my mind and opens my awareness of not only my surroundings but my place.
