Still
welcoming and failing to.
Patterns and iteration are core to my practice, creating carefully curated noise. I’m utterly fascinated by the impact of the whole, rather than any individual photograph. I find myself frequently coming back to the tension between function and form — for example, you and I would probably both agree that a family reunion photograph, you know the type, where everyone is standing in a line and trying their best to smile in a not-weird fashion? That’s gotta be a functional image, right? It serves the function of reminding the owner of its existence. But what happens with images that have no function? Or, for that matter, if the form is objectively bad, what function is there to offer?
scapes, city and otherwise
So this line of questioning leads me to the question: “what’s the value of a single image?” As far as I can tell, unless it’s capturing a singe, significant event — in which case, it is fulfilling both form and function completely — then most images I take garner their value by being in direct conversation with other images. Altogether becoming a study of a single element.
I’m consistently amazed at the way cameras and image technology has evolved over the past decade. Often leading me to try and create images that are challenging the technology in some way — like below, all images were taken past midnight, attempting to push the dynamic range of the camera into accommodating for “nothingness”, without overly burdening. What it yields are images that hold up in small forms, but degrade entirely in detail. I find them reminiscent of gestural drawings.
when technology starts to fail