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Thinner Air
Thinner Air spotlights the narrative that happens between juxtaposed images and the possibility of referencing large ideas with small things.
This photographic book project shows the construction and imminent flight of a small model plane. Soon into the airplane’s flight however, the photographic perspective changes from staring at the plane under construction to a vantage point from within the plane during flight. This experimental book examines a spatial shift in perspective in several different ways, and questions the viewer’s assumption that the original toy plane, because of its modest scale, was simply a toy and safely nostalgic.
Thinner Air is a 48 page artist book printed in a limited edition of 150 copies .
Exhibition prints of individual images are printed as 16x20" archival pigment prints, editioned to ten.
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Folded in Place
The photographs in this series are informed by the varied ways that photography, mapping, drawing and sculpture have each tried to describe the landscape. By incorporating each of these methods, Folded in Place highlights the abstraction of the landscape traditionally offered by these means, while creating a tangible photographic “place” in each image that is occupied by a mapped construction. The images therefore provide precise photographic and mapped information while at the same time offering an abstraction of the landscape itself. The viewer is shown a landscape that is simultaneously understood and unknown, a landscape in which the map obtains a new geography of its own.
All images are 24x30” digital c-prints, editioned to ten.
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The Cut Path
By choosing to use remote abandoned telephone lines as a means of moving into the landscape, a path was set. Yet the path marked by telephone poles is not a mapped one, and the traveler therefore continues without the larger picture of the journey. The resulting photographs are themselves markers of these unmapped journeys. In essence, these are images derived from the process of getting lost.
Images are 16x20" and 20x24” archival pigment prints, editioned to ten in each size.
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The Travelers
Using formal portraits of strangers hiking the entire Appalachian Trail alongside those seen from my own travels through that landscape, this project merges the experience of the path traveled by many into a single linear photographic narrative.
All images are 16x20" and 24x30” digital c-prints, editioned to ten in each size.