Bodies of Work-(a work in progress)

"Sputnik" from the Telepathy Drawings

In the early part of 2005 we began the telepathy drawings. The project consists of fellow artist Christina Ayala, and myself, sitting down to transmit and record telepathic messages. I sit on one side of a table with Christina across from me. Each session lasts for seven minutes, during which time I transmit a singular thought to Christina, i.e. “Princess Di”. At some point along the transmission Christina receives and transcribes the message through drawing. In addition to the record created by Christina, I photograph the complete duration of the seven-minute session with a large format camera. This image stands along with the drawing as a document of the collaboration. In addition to the presentation of our work in the Gallery Space, we install a Telepathy Station, where we invite the Gallery visitors to sit down and create their own Telepathic Drawings. The project explores and confronts the junction of meaning, belief, and collaborative nature in art making and viewing.

"Robert Smithson"

"Black Magic"

"Diesel Power"

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"Untitled" from the series 32380

32380

When our experiences are being mediated and shaped through virtual realities and planned communities, it is important to re-examine the context and effect of escapism, artifice, and the suspension of disbelief in architecture and planned landscapes. 32830’s imagery depicts landscapes through which humans escape while engaging fantasy, early memories, and visions of ideal states of being. As the boundaries between fantasy and the everyday begin to dissolve the two begin to merge creating a confused and insulating affect. 32830 is an ongoing project that explores the nexus of these converging realities by recording the dioramas, facades, and the translated fabrications of fairytale landscapes. These images are made with b&w film and silver gelatin prints.

"untitled" from 32380

"untitled" from 32380

"untitled" from 32380

"untitled" from 32380

"untitled" from 32380

"untitled" from 32380

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Interior Motives

"Red Green" from Interior Motives

Recently I was fortunate to receive an antique 8×10 large format view camera. This camera, being over a century old, having seen better days, it’s bellows and brass worn, the standards and locking breaks stripped, seemed to be the perfect tool to explore my feelings of excitement and trepidation in purchasing a home with my partner. Due to the lack of control that this camera exerts over my image making, I have entered into a partnership of give and take which mirrors the reality of sharing one’s life. To enhance this feeling of mediated experience I have incorporated photographic paper as my negative and a 4×5 lens which creates the vinetteing in the image. These images are in essence snapshots of my own domestification.

"Before" from Interior Motives

"After" from Interior Motives

"Portrait with Lamp" from Interior Motives

"Thoughts that Counted" from Interior Motives