CYCLE ENVY
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CYCLE ENVY is a project that brings into consideration expectations of myself as a man-bodied person. Using images of moon observations, physical data of my body temperature each night, and long exposure self portraits made while I’m sleeping, I have been working to draw a correlation between the emotional or hormonal cycles I experience and the moon as it changes every 28 days.
To the observant wandering child, the landscape is a place of fantasy and fame. With this naive view, the scale of the world is skewed down; a field, a stand of trees, or an old road can hold the magic and possibility of the American west in 19th century frontier times. In the transition from adolescent to adult, my views of landscape have changed; but the woods near my parents’ house still hold the same mystique and wonder that I remember from my youth. These photographs are documents of my personal history, a meaningful childhood remembered.
Map of Memories
These photographs address the way place is interpreted through the printed image. The source images from a set of books I found titled Kaunis Suomi or “Beautiful Finland” while an Artist in Residence at Arteles Creative Center. The pages have been lit from behind by being taped to the studio window to reveal both sides of a printed page. They are made in camera with minimal post-processing.
Installation view of Uncommon Places, a two person exhibition with Ken Craft
I am continually interested in the way meaning is construed through storytelling, folklore, and in this case, cryptozoology; the ways which our perception of place affect our experiences of them. Prompted by research conducted by the North American Wood Ape Conservancy (NAWAC) and the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, this project utilizes an archive of incident reports to locate and photograph the sites where the Bigfoot has been seen in East Texas, Western Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Akin to photography, mythologies and fables rely on a specific point of view to deliver narrative. This project explores the research undertaken by this organization, and in parallel reflects the inability of a photograph to represent truth.
People who Photograph the Maroon Bells is a project where I make portraits of people who have made the photographic pilgrimage to what the city of Aspen, Colorado calls the “most photographed mountains in North America,” the Maroon Bells. These mountains are an iconic symbol of the sublime, aptly named after the color of the peaks at first light of day when the mountains are rendered a vibrant chestnut color. This title and the popularity of its beauty direct people to arrive before dawn to photograph their own version of a photograph that they have seen before.
Nine Stock Images of the Maroon Bells (pixel averaged)
Six Engagement Sessions at Maroon Lake (pixel averaged and auto aligned)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter at the Maroon Bells, Sourced from Flickr (pixel averaged and auto aligned)
Three Black and White Photographs of the Maroon Bells Layered with an Ansel Adams (pixel averaged and auto aligned)