Artist Statement
The suburbs are unlikely places for poetic mysticism. As symbols of progress and the American dream (or nightmare), these neighborhoods often lack individuality, character, and uniqueness. Paradoxically, this banality can incubate something mysterious, wondrous, and mythological. With this project I depict mystical luminous events transpiring within suburban neighborhoods. The nature of these events is purposefully ambiguous. The sublime can be found within the depths of a paradox.
Process Statement
The images are created using a re-photographic approach. By altering the physical form of photographic prints and creatively lighting the results, I employ a rich new visual ground to explore with the lens. I particularly respond to the dreamlike obfuscation of detail and the play of light across the surfaces. This work explores the ambiguity between photographic expectation and neo-pictorialist space, signification and abstraction, and the real versus the uncanny.
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