Restricted Access

I envision a not too distant future when the people responsible for our own security fail with ill-fated results. This can be the breakdown of an already fragile infrastructure, the anxiety of preparing for our own defense, or the fear of coping with the aftermath of a tragic event. Based on these speculations a visual mythology of rarely seen places that are designed to monitor, control and respond to unfortunate events are created. I harvest these observations, analyzing how spaces can be transformed due to a high level of security or incidents of alarm and emergency. The act of being denied access to a place or the knowledge that a rare tragedy occurred creates intrigue. The moment when intrigue and the denial of information cross paths a mythology is born. My image creation is heavily influenced by architecture that is strictly utilitarian. I look at how structures are built for security, privacy or defense. To dramatize the unseen I fabricate these scenarios through building miniature sets, placing the viewer in a strange mental space; caught between the photographic reality of the material and the alternate reality the space creates as a whole.