Statement: Infra
I photograph the infrastructure of buildings exposed during construction and reconfigure their architectural elements. These structures are in flux, on the precipice of becoming finished, that represent transition. The timber frames are skeletal and the architecture becomes a corollary for the human form. I cut the photographic prints to reduce the buildings to their most essential supports, and create a latticework of timber hovering over an ambiguous ground. I bend and shape the prints using pins and invisible thread, and incorporating materials like metal, plastic thread, and wood. I create tension in the installations to accentuate the in-between state of the constructions.
I'm really interested in the transformation of photograph into object and in the conceptual and material flexibility of images. In my sculptures, the images of a space functioning within another space cause a disconnect as they are suspended and uprooted from their original settings. The image as index is still important because of what construction represents, but I manipulate the structure until it becomes untenable.