Still Lives, Reimagined

I grew up around construction sites and to me, industrial places like garbage dumps, with beat-up machinery and abandoned debris, are a familiar world. As a photographer, they are landscapes of possibility. The colors, geometries and textures can be beautiful.

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In Still Lives Reimagined, I strive to make junk feel paradoxically alive. First, I photograph the object. Then I digitally remove pieces from it. Then I recombine the pieces into abstract forms that suggest organicity. It is my imagined "world" where discarded objects have been transformed to imply a range of human attributes. They can be playful, sensual, or dance. They can even suggest connection and relationship.