In the world we are living in at the moment, we are all constantly being
surveyed. The painted marks I am photographing are not only surfaces of
concealment for the sake of privacy. What fascinated me most was how they
create a strange, cloud like, amorphous space in the middle of the urban
photographs. It is a reminder of the historical basis of pictoral representation
in painting. They are the perfectly unselfconscious painterly gesture because
they are gestures that the people who made them weren’t even aware that they
where making. The images are almost two dimensional and focus on the
surface and how it is disrupted. The shop window can be seen as a metaphor
for photography itself. We tend to look through it and never at it. However, I
am photographing the shop window, framed by its shop front, as a second
aperture that is blocked so you are forced to look at the painted glass and how
its reflections work together with it, rather than through it to see its contents.
Leaving an unknown, hidden space behind the painted glass.
Untitled I (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.
Untitled II (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.
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Untitled III (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.
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Untitled IV (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.
Untitled V (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.
Untitled VI (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.
Untitled VII (2021) 8x10in archival giclee print.