Still Lives, Reimagined
I grew up around construction sites and to me, a place like my town dump, with abandoned debris and beat up machinery, is a familiar and comfortable world. As a photographer, my dump is a landscape of possibility. The colors, geometries and textures are beautiful. I have been photographing these things for years.
In Still Lives Reimagined, I work to make junk feel paradoxically alive. First photographing the object, I digitally select out pieces from those photos. Then, I recombine the pieces into new abstract images.
It's my imagined "world" where discarded objects have been transformed to imply a range of human attributes. They can be playful, or sensual, or seem to dance. There are bonds that can even suggest connection and relationship.