16 x 24 inches

c print

editions of 5

2009

The optical manipulation that define these images reflect an inquiry into the nature of vision, viewership and photographic representation. The visual effects are produced optically, without the aid of digital imaging software.

Landscape Inversions pictorially express issues relating to our retinal registration of visual information. This work also engages with historical considerations in photographic image making, specifically the camera obscura and the reflex.

Landscape Voids mitigate the illusionism of a photographic simulacrum, and the photographic image-object. These works additionally suggest visual deficiency in observation of the natural world. A redefined illusionistic operation takes place in these works, which is actuated by the competition between image and absence.

Burned Voids expand the exploration by situating the photographic image on the cusp of pure abstraction. The works intend to marginalize the purity of geometric abstraction through minimally visible photographic information.