The Grid

Using a digital camera, computer, and a steel construct, I capture, dissect, and reassemble imagery. A device I built allows the camera to capture a linear plane of space in a series of 6-inch contiguous squares. Recording the plane of space as if documenting a canvas, images are captured repeatedly as the point of perspective shifts, time passes, lighting alters and subjects move. The depth of field is varied through aperture setting and exposure times while maintaining a single focal distance on the invisible plane. In so doing, space and subject are dissected into a grid; each square possessing its own vantage point and its own information to relay. The captured images are then transferred to the computer. The computer serves as the digital darkroom and drafting table. Once finalized, the images are then separated back out, printed as separate prints, and reassembled using various materials and techniques

Boston Globe Review

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Honey Apparatus
Table Nude Series
Portrait Series

In this work, as in Muybridge’s “Horse Galloping”, there is an association with scientific study of a subject through systematic observation. Focusing on the picture plane rather than the subject creates a dialogue about examination: the way imposing a rigid system can influence meaning and how we are able to reassemble meaning through a cognitive process.

We live in a time where we realize that one view, one opinion, one object can no longer be fully accurate in describing an idea. Multiple vantage points, nonlinear narratives, hyper text connections -- all seek to provide information which contribute to define an idea and are in themselves individual ideas. Philosophy, Science, Literature and Art strive to uncover unseen truths (emotional and mental) by viewing and presenting views of the world through new perspectives. Words like Analysis, Synthesis, and Sutra serve as the nucleus of this work as I seek create imagery that invokes contemplation.