A moment in the Portland Airport, reflecting on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Augé’s notion of non-places. Continuing to experiment with adapting older lenses onto a contemporary mirrorless body. In this case, I’m using a Canon 50mm SSC f1.4 lens…
Image made of the topography maps of Orcas Island in Washington. Obscured by collected water and condensation, the map becomes as abstruse as the landscape in the mist.
Photograph of a stationary travel trailer patched, repainted, and marked by repeated dark motifs along its windows. The image operates as a comparative surface in which manufactured tones and atmospheric color coexist but do not resolve. The structure can be…
Photograph of a wooden gate marked by a blue arrow aligned against an open sky. The image functions as a comparative device: an informal cyanometer in which pigment and atmosphere are read against one another. Historically, cyanometers measured the sky…
Photograph of the La Farge Library building in Santa Fe, NM under clear sky. Painted form and atmosphere align in hue. The image operates as a comparative surface rather than a view: an informal cyanometer in which architectural blue is…
Translation of a photographic image from the Liberal Hooker Corridor project into a carved surface. The act of re-drawing slows the photographic process and converts a contemporary structure into a patterned, repeatable flattened form. The print functions as a secondary…
Photograph made under the undulating jingles of the Denver International Airport’s underground tramway system. Each of the cars was empty of passengers, despite it being a peak travel day after Thanksgiving holiday. The crumpled toilet paper that (somehow) wandered into…
Image made while kayaking the Willamette River in rural Oregon. The deadfall tree was washed onto a temporary alluvial island in the river and then embellished with the addition of a copyright sign. A wildfire fighting helicopter trained overhead, there…
Night view through the windows of the Milwaukee Museum of Art addition (designed by Santiago Calatrava, completed in 2001). The frame records a surface where institutional space and exterior ground merge. The image brackets a cultural node within a larger…
This image was made in the storage area of an Ecuadorian restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the golden hour. This was the warmest feeling exterior space (visually and physically) for the entirety of the day. The space recorded reflects a…
In the absence of light and vegetation and warmth… all architecture becomes conceptual. The everyday becomes monumental.
Stella Waitzkin, Details of a Lost Library, Hotel Chelsea, New York City, NY
I’ve always been interested in visibility, what it means to be visible and what new technologies aid/impede being visible. The latest technology to draw my attention is Grindr’s new “Right Now” feature. “Right Now” is a dedicated feed within the…
View from the Lake Valley ghost town.