REPRESENTATIONS

“Representations” combines photography and drawing to explore the concept of photographic truth and its correspondence to perceived reality. No digital manipulation is involved. I draw directly onto ordinary objects (which I have first whitewashed) to create what I like to call 2- dimensional documents of 3-dimensional drawings. These visual hybrids appear to vacillate between drawing and photography, black-and-white and color, signifier and signified, drawing attention to how we see, and construct our own versions of reality. In stark contrast to Cubism's merging of multiple perspectives, “Representations” exploits the limitations of the camera's singular point of view. Highlighting the deceptive nature of first impressions and the illusion inherent in any image, these images examine and question those assumptions we might have about photography--its conventions and relationship to what we believe to be real or true.