Abstracting the View
Abstracting the View repurposes castoff color snapshots. Working with these remnants of analogue photography, I have cut out fragments from the prints and reassembled them in new forms. The new constellations put representation and abstraction into dynamic tension: Images of grass and sky become color palettes and textures as much as representational pictures, although traces of the source imagery remain in the new compositions. Rather than pointing only to things in the world, the abstractions also point to the materiality of the photographs themselves -- their paper substrates and glossy surfaces, their rich or fading colors, and their sheer number. The work is about photography, and made from photographs, but endeavors to create new forms and images from these materials.
The series includes 24 8 x 10-inch artworks.