Brief Encounter, Ink Jet Photograph, 13.653in x 20.48in, 2012/2015
Kaufmann Way #1 (Right Portion), Aluminum Photographic Print Installation, 72.6in x 46.7in x 1.8in, 2012
Kaufmann Way #1 (Right Portion), Aluminum Photographic Print Installation, 72.6in x 46.7in x 1.8in, 2012
Seen in Public, first glance (Cleveland, August 2016), Photographic Mural / 3M Envision Print Wrap Film, 20ft x 30ft, 2016
Crossing Paths, Ink Jet Photograph, 13.653in x 20.48in, 2012
Cross the Way, Ink Jet Photograph, 13.653in x 20.48in, 2012/2015
Author(ity), Inkjet Print Photograph, 13.653in x 20.48in, 2012
Untitled (Punk Rockers), Photography, Size YTBD, work-in-progress
Kaufmann Way #1 (Right Portion), Photography, 6.5'h x 10.2'w x 2
The work is inspired by the act people-watching and transposes that experience, as near as possible, into a static artwork. The selected photographs inform a necessarily incomplete, open-ended, and biased synthesis of observed people passing through public spaces as they go about their everyday activities. Just as in people-watching, I pickup on only the most notable external signifiers of who those depicted are via their appearance, apparent relationships, and activities. The work represents a social image-text that must be read. The fragmented formal technique offers more information than a single photograph, which slows the reading while still withholding an authoritative singular narrative. Viewers participate by reenacting the interpretive processes of people-watching, using the juxtaposition and repetition of provided imagery as clues to develop their own estimations of identities and narratives. I hope to implicate viewers as actively constructing their view of others from influential social paradigms in which we all participate and shape over time.