things i found out after the fact

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• 18 x 48 archival prints mounted on board
• edition of 4
• 2007

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from a distance

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And we would go on as though
nothing was wrong.
And hide from these days
we remained all alone.
Staying in the same place,
just staying out the time.
Touching from a distance,
Further all the time.
Transmission – Joy Division (1978)

When you reach that moment of no return which path do you take? Is this the start or end of it all? These emotionally rich photographic images exist in the space between love and loss. The two fragmented figures occupy parts or little of the frame. Are they new lovers or strangers for way too long, witnesses to each other’s empty hearts.

"The contemporary language of oblique framing and selective focus combines with the evanescent appearance of the collodion image to suggest the impermanence of relationship. Few, if any, contemporary processes are so adaptable, or so accommodating of opposites: the “seeming contradictions” of this remarkable process perfectly frame, and perfectly reflect, the impermanence and lastingness, fragility and strength, and visible or invisible magic of the relationships these photographs explore."
-Don Snyder

• 8 x 10 ambrotypes on black glass
• edition of 4
• 2005

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le passé restera encore

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In the spring of 2003 I had the pleasure of visiting Paris and the surrounding area for the first time. I was speeechless from the day I landed to the day I got back. I participated in a Photography Workshop that allowed me access to photo collections normally resticted from public view.

This series, loosley translated the past still remains, is my first attempt at the wet collodion process. It seemed fitting that my first visit to Paris, the birth place of photography, was captured in a process invented in the 1850's.

Personal and emotionally enriched, the ambrotype process only enhances the images. Invented in the middle of the 19th century, the process uses glass and a wet collodion mixture rather than film to create an image. The glass is coated with a collodion mixture (alcohol-based solution), than sensitised in silver-salted solution. The plate is then exposed and developed on the spot. All this must be done quickly, before the plate dries (this is a wet process). What emerges is a one-of-a-kind positive image. The hypnotic images are real, with imperfections such as fingerprints and marks adding to the character of the images. Another distinctive quality to the ambrotype process is the hand pouring technique. The uniqueness is arrived from a never uniform surface. Artifacts are part of the process. The pourer’s fingerprint is always present.

• 8 x 10 ambrotypes on black glass
• edition of 4
• 2004

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freedom is...

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"America, has, and intends to keep, military strengths beyond challenge, thereby making the destabilizing arms race of other eras pointless, and limiting rivalries to tradeand other pursuits of peace." - George W. Bush

"I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are." - George Bush Sr.

• 30 x 40 chromogenic prints
• edition of 5
• 2003

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a better fit

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What happens to our disgarded images? Out of focus, too dark, too bright.
By reworking my unwanted photos, I attempted to form new narratives and design ideas.

• 30 x 40 chromogenic prints
• edition of 4
• 2003

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exercise one

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Inspired by a trip to a thrift store in Florida. Discovered a mysterious box behind some odd nik-naks. Inside were a dozen old metal  cannisters, of 1950's Kodachrome family snapshots.

With my installation I attempted to preserve the privacy and connection family has to everyone. Not on display but contained within their own large box, the viewer uses their own imagination and voyeuristic ideas to form their own storylines.

• 96 x 48 rectangular tower, plywood and mixed media
• 2002

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the yellow wallpaper

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The Yellow Wallpaper is a journal of one woman's downward spiral into depression and madness. The narrator spends her time locked in a room with bars on the windows and a nailed down bed. Liked a caged animal, backed into a corner, she attempts to fight back. Her fight for and with the woman behind the wallpaer, symbolizes her battle for independence, her struggle to survive. By freeing the woman behind the wallpaper she achieves independence, but at what price? By the end she has traded her sanity for her freedom.

• handmade 8.5 x 5.5 book printed on arhival paper
• 2002

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from safety to where?

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A visual diary, documenting the struggles and realizations of one person's life. Through these revisits they are able to come to a conclusion that is their own.

• 20 x 24 chromogenic prints
• edition of 16
• 2001

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wear u.r.

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This series is my comment on fashion, and how it is more important where you are than what you are wearing.

• 20 x 24 archival prints
• edition of 16
• 2001

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the start of it all

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The year I discovered Joseph Cornell. He has affected my life in more ways than I can imagine. This project was my first attempt at addressing personal issues from my childhood I closeted away. For me straight photography was never a workable medium for expressing what i need to express.

This was my first installation and use of mixed media.

• plywood and mixed media
• 2001

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