Monday, December 28, 2009

The air was soft, the stars so fine


Summer road trip, July 2010:
Savannah
Wilmington
Chapel Hill
Philly
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Boston
Portland



From the series, The in-between, 2009.

When I Grow Up



This will be mine. John Baldassari and all.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Iconoclasm

Lacan establishes the Three Orders: The Imaginary, The Symbolic, and The Real. The stable house embodies The Imaginary. It stands firm, fixed to the ground. It is self-sufficient and whole. The Symbolic is the recognition that something has changed; the fabric punctured and threaded through the image is a signifier that the subject has been reorganized; it disrupts the balance.


Monday, November 23, 2009

Untitled




Over the summer, I revisited an abandoned house for my "genre and mystery" response - inspired by Jeff Wall's The Well:

Monday, November 16, 2009

Camilo José Vergara :: Harlem en foco

"La exposición Harlem 1970-2009, que se exhibe en la Sociedad Histórica de Nueva York, retrata el progreso que esta comunidad a lo largo de las últimas décadas, en un centenar de fotografías."



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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Comfort Chambers


An atom acquires particles to fill its unoccupied orbital. When an atom lacks these essential particles, it is said to be in an “unstable” state.

Motivated by this classification, I investigate our relationship with domestic spaces. We fill our rooms with our belongings to feel at home. In the series “Comfort Chambers”, I impose my own domestic interiors on abandoned spaces. However, my belongings do not function in the same way they do in my living space. I attempt to “settle” the space with these objects, and fail.