This body of work explores the nature of communication in the age of technology as well as photography’s place in the contemporary climate of information overload—informational worship. It investigates the photographic condition of invisibility—when the abstract nature of language is mistaken for and valued over reality itself. This body of work points out the detrimental effects this condition has on our critical awareness to words and images in the everyday by presenting a potential foil and/or remedy.
This body of work redirects how the viewer pays attention to the photograph by undermining the subject and highlighting the unintended and overlooked attributes of the medium—the surface, its contextual presentation, its materiality—the characteristics that pluck the photograph from the matrix of a false reality. By merging image and text, this work mimics their proximity in contemporary media to fragment familiar processes of communication, disrupting our accustomed and automatic intake of daily information. The work challenges the viewer’s sense of conventional logic, posing questions to which there are no answers. It is not about the information per se but rather how to think about the relay and reception of given information. And so, the importance and slipperiness of photographic interpretation becomes the subject—the nature of photography itself becomes the subject.
