WINTER LANDSCAPES

All of the images are of doctor prescribed depression therapy light boxes, shot on an 18% "photo gray" backdrop. The prints are traditional gelatin silver prints shot with a 5x7 camera. Each image is titled after the object itself: New Horizons Ultralight, Sunbox jr and Nu-You are just some of the names of these devices.

The images explore the nature and function of pictures. Visiting some of the issues in my previous work these images expand upon romantic
ideas of the relationship between the self and the landscape, or in this instance a medicinised, surrogate landscape. The title of "Winter Landscapes" refers to a series of paintings by Casper David Freideich in which the same transcendent scene is repeated throughout several paintings.


UNIVERSAL DEFAULT

The photographs in the series Universal Default are taken in the empty, outer lying spaces of newly constructed "big box" stores across the United States. Lit by the ambient glow of modern parking lot lights, the borders that separate the empty spaces of agriculture from suburban commercial architecture are illuminated. The camera records an enigmatic and tragic reality that appears fictitious. These highly detailed photographs are taken with 4x5 and 5x7 view cameras. I do not create these landscapes I document them. My process is a faithful one,
recording only what can be seen, there is no digital manipulation involved in these works. The landscapes are a universal phenomenon economically tied to a culture of retail that relies upon new development. My subject is a byproduct of economics, a leftover landscape. My work is strongly indebted by generations of artists before me, especially the American photographers of the 1960’s and 70’s whom responded to a need to re-examine the American landscape in a time of political, economic and cultural crisis. The work is not an all-encompassing
narrative of “America” but rather a visual or archeological exploration grounded by a conceptual structure.


CORPORATE TOWN

"Corporate town" explores the ruins of a 1970's experiment with urban planning. A "corporate city" outside of New York, literally cut into an historic New England community, autographed by a large number of celebrity architects from Moshe Safdie to Arthur Erikson, financed by
the largest American Corporations. What is left is a modern ruin of an America to be that never was.