My work consists of building selected objects that range from the natural and organic, to the art art historical, to the political, historical, to the domestic and mundane. My method generally consists of carving forms out of Styrofoam and covering them with close-up photo images of the objects' surfaces. The result is a distorted mosaic made up of small individual, photographic truths which reveal the complexity of observation, recording, and representation. substituting the signs of the real (photos) for the real, I have created exaggerated Simulacras, whereby the difference between the actual and false is diminished and emphasized at the same time.
Furthermore, this technique produces a series of unresolved tensions - 2D vs. 3D, disembodied vs. embodied, absence vs. presence - all which speak to the fate of an individual in our self-produced hyperreality.
FIX - A - THING has been a project that consist of me going around the city and locating broken objects. I would photograph the information around the broken subject matter and use the same photos to "fix" it. For example, in the Payphone piece the phone was missing, so I gathered information from another site and made the entire phone out of photographs. The patched up work is left behind exposed to external elements which eventually destroys it. The artwork is suppose to act like a fast patch, duct taped solution to the problem which is in the end futile. The work is documented in order to secure evidence of its existence.
