Force Majeure

My photographs and installations are focused on the failures of trusted and know strata. The intention is to have the installations convey what the camera and prints alone can not. The work represents the material failure of both medium of photography and our infrastructure. The assembling of deconstructed photographs physically speak to the ways in which familiar landscapes have been mangled and erased by the force of water. The point of focus: the mutability of boundary, frame and instability of surface. The photographs are intended to fracture tradition and space. The pictures edge mimics the breech and loss of the built environment. The malleable asphalt and road markers can no longer impose order. Weather forces them to become futile in function and ultimately broken. Immovable objects that are normally tethered to the earth, such as concrete barriers, change form as they are flung above our heads or fall into the sea. The barriers that divide us are felled in a single instant. The works experientially resemble losing control of trusted and known spaces. The edges and surface of the photograph are distorted through cutting, scanning and reconstructing. I extend the lines with tape and paint to confuse the familiar perception of formerly understood textures: photograph or photographed, comes into question.The difference between photograph and gesture of the hand in these works is unclear. White and yellow tape is used to stitch broken fragments back together and extend the picture plane.