Video

Countless subway cars and all I see are advertisements for Seamless® and Squarespace®. Trendy tabletop photography; template-driven design. Their campaigns bore me; I want something more than a display of neatly arranged items on a table. One night in the studio I opened up a large foldout table. Around the room I spread out items collected on recent adventures. Instead of using Google® and Photoshop® to construct an image I opt for an overhead camera and physical objects. Having to collage in the natural world slows down the process and in turn choices in configuration are more deliberate. I needed a language that wasn’t copypasta; that wasn’t slide to interact. It had to break things down, build them back, and function on multiple layers of visual communication. In the video series What I’m Bringing To The Table disparate everyday objects are brought together to point to contradictory meanings implied by their use in the art studio and office environment.

2015

deviltown
2013

6-channel video installation
480 x 3840
5:15

A dystopian visual narrative, deviltown is an installation that combines photography, video, and sound to blur the lines between art gallery and city street. Situated on the six screens of Atlanta's The Window Project, degraded VHS footage confronts the audience with a set of surrealist-inspired compositions. The visual scenes comment on the phenomenology of sight and perception as well as the place and space one occupies. These interwoven images emphasize the extent to which our lives and awareness of the world is divided and segmented both to reveal and challenge our own reality.