2001
"Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are."
- Jose Ortega y Gassett
My recent black and white photographs examine the landscape but not in the traditional sense. Rather than being timely located in the world, the surfaces within these images suggest multiple associations. The photographs simultaneously, look like fragments of topographical maps or slides from the microscope of a biologist. Distinctions between the exterior environment and the domain of the interior body seem to evaporate. In a sense the landscape in this work does not "tell us who we are" but rather asks us who we are. These imaginary landscapes prompt the viewer to re-evaluate their relationship to reality.
- Jose Ortega y Gassett
My recent black and white photographs examine the landscape but not in the traditional sense. Rather than being timely located in the world, the surfaces within these images suggest multiple associations. The photographs simultaneously, look like fragments of topographical maps or slides from the microscope of a biologist. Distinctions between the exterior environment and the domain of the interior body seem to evaporate. In a sense the landscape in this work does not "tell us who we are" but rather asks us who we are. These imaginary landscapes prompt the viewer to re-evaluate their relationship to reality.
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