portfolio updated 23 july 2008



My work investigates the necessity of human privacy and intimacy. By presenting the spaces that we inhabit, the imagery strives to construct, deconstruct, and document common public and private spaces, capturing those spaces during instances when humans are absent.

We sometimes tend to more effectively express ourselves by physical means rather than any other means. The strongest form of communication is through touch, and by sensing one’s own presence and by authenticating it by the conveyance of one’s own existence in some place, at some time. In order to have some allotment of immortality, we feel the need to somehow mark our existence.

How does one’s personal space carry over their importance when it is devoid of that person? With my work I try to show the activity or inactivity of spaces by creating an imagined or false existence of someone, pushing the viewer to direct their attention into those empty spaces and question the validity of their own surroundings and the externalities of their own existence.

I am very interested in how space is measured, divided, defined, shared, defended, discarded, etc. My work compares and pairs the visual representation of the human tendency to claim and covet space. How do humans act in what they define as their personal space? How do they act in foreign spaces? How are they perceived by others in those spaces and what does that teach us about them, and about ourselves?

The work strives to create dialogue about the fundamentals of human necessity that travels in and out of time, culture, and space. My most important hope is that by viewing my work, people will think outside of themselves and consider how their action or inaction affects their surrounding spaces and those who share those spaces with them.