do you know your neighbor

A neighborhood's architecture is often seen as a proxy for status, community, locality—and our relationships with them. A facade may or may not be a cover-up. This work examines the effect of the observer on the observation. There are social consequences in seeing and its aftermath. This project chronicles my movement as a passerby, as well as the places I’ve stayed. "Do you know your neighbor" mirrors both the content and a photographer in flux, with views that are both prosaic and absurd. The triptychs represent a visual stream of consciousness recorded in the act of walking or driving by. They catalogue a stretch of space over an arbitrary span of time, making plain the subjective layers of appearance, where how much is reliably understood is difficult to gauge. This gestural methodology yields outcomes that are haphazard and specific. Through random fragmentation and distortion, the scenes suggest agitation and ambiguity. There are glitches in the picture, glimpses of spaces in the in-between—there is no decisive moment here. As photographer/curator/writer Gerry Badger has written, “Moments are nothing, if not pliable.”