My work is rooted in walking as an artistic practice and experimentation with the photographic process. This may take the form of prints developed in acidic river water; multiple exposure work made on intentional walks, mixed view points on a single film plane; unprocessed film rolls; or camera-less abstractions created by rainfall. I utilize the unpredictable aspects of chemistry, infrastructure and weather to distill the particularities of my surroundings into visual artifacts.
In the series Maps for Getting Lost I use my immediate environment to navigate space as a process of exploration. Long walks that are guided by weather, traffic, building heights, sound or other factors result in artist books containing GPS tracks of my route and images of the resulting visual experience. These are works rooted in wayfaring, the dérive and a quest for immediacy and mindfulness.
Most Recently, Ambient Geography is a series of images made by combining minute-by-minute perspectives from an intentional walk into a single composite, resulting in a form of abstraction created by algorithm and visual excess. My Rain Pieces use alternative photographic processes to record the infinite variety of rainfall in my particular physical environment.
These are all studies, in a way. They are attempts to use the tools of visual art to instigate new perspectives and views on our surroundings. I consider my artistic practice a means to experience the overlooked, consider the less obvious and engage deeply with the profound subtleties of our unique personal environments and ecosystems.