Photography
I am drawn to subjects that reveal the essence of the human experience, the interaction between people and their environments, and the subtle, often unspoken narratives that shape our lives.
Select Projects BelowMiddlescapes
Middlescapes is an ongoing survey of the Midwest. It seeks to tell the stories of an imaginary place found in reality. Through a visual inventory of past and current utopias, materialized in lines of corn, barns, constructed environments, and human forms, we are offered a reflection on the subtle interplay of history caught in an infinite loop—past futures, future pasts of the modern American vernacular.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning deploys post-industrial techniques to make meaning from industrial and rural landscapes. The work frames a collision of new and old by applying artificial intelligence techniques to his images. The new images are created in the “eye” of artificial intelligence software; interpreting and recreating often overlooked, disregarded utilitarian structures and out-of-the-way corners. This book draws us to consider emergent visual economies. Who is the image maker when we use such tools–humans or machines? And what do these tools and their algorithms show us that we have not already seen ourselves?
On The Plane
“Flying” is one of modern life's most (extra)ordinary experiences. On the plane, our perspective can take on a vastness and scope similar to pre-modern and contemporary narratives of deities. Simultaneously, on the plane, the rules of time and space, essential to modern frameworks of meaning, are physically distorted as we rush over the earth. An activity with such metaphysical possibility has become an ordinary act for most.
Could there be qualities of this experience that allow us to consider what connects the ordinary and the (extra)ordinary? As a spiritual and rational act? And how could this be captured?
Mid-Continent Modern
Mid-Continent Moden: The Champaign School of Architecture documents the contributions of Jack Sherman Baker, John Gordon Replinger, A. Richard Williams, and Robert Louis Amico to the local built environment. Over the last ten years, we have not only documented their work via images, but collected plans, elevations, and architectural models as part of a broader archival project. These places offer insights into the powerful subtlety of the vernacular. We encounter the translation and transposition of universal ideas in local contexts. The project becomes more than stories of a set of singular buildings or a canon of architectural style, but a meeting place for communities of ideas and social practice: architects in architecture schools, builders and materials, and owners within communities.
