Artworks
My work focuses on the hidden, imaginary and delirious aspects of photography, taking a starting point from moments where representational logic fails and attempting to give these moments of illogic a representational form of their own. Each of my projects addresses this paradox in some way, attempting to re-tell the story of representation along somewhat different lines of thought -- attempting to "imagine the world otherwise" as the philosopher Richard Kearney once prescribed for a world grown overly attached to the literalness of instrumentalized living. In this way I see my work as a critical exploration of representation in the service of imaginary possibilities.
Speculative Self-portraits
2012-present
Self-portrait experiments with tinfoil, magnets, stereographic imaging and anaglyph 3D.
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Excerpts from the Library of Babel
2009-present
A kirlian photography project documenting multiple copies of Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel."
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Werewolf Stories
2008-2013
Photographic meditations on what it would mean to poetically reanimate a wolf skin.
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Glow-in-the-dark Self-portraits
2001-2008
Self-portraits taken using only glow-in-the-dark body paint as a light source.
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Self-portrait Chronicles
1994-2002
Analogue self-portraits using negative imagery, multiple exposures and other alternative techniques.
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Experiments with Kirlian Photography
2001-2009
Experiments with Kirlian imaging, a form of photography that uses electricity instead of light to generate pictures.
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Exercise in Psychic Photography
2005-11
Inspired by the story of Ted Serios, these are attempts to project images directly from the mind onto photographic film.
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