REPRESENTATIONS

Representations continues my exploration of the photograph’s unique role in negotiating what we believe to be real or true. The series 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 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, copy and original, 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. By exploiting the deceptive nature of first impressions and the illusion inherent in any image, Representations questions the very identity of photography, and examines how photographs represent, and influence our relationship to the world we live in.