Transmutations

Inspired by MoMA’s Photography into Sculpture, 1970, I create objects and images that question the function of photography in a contemporary fine art setting. What constitutes a photograph? How does the function of an image change when taken off the gallery wall? Using liquid emulsions such as cyanotype, I create images outside the accepted and expected realm of art photography. By shifting away from institutional art spaces, I also explore the notions of accessibility and viewership. The images I make in this line of work do not appear as photographs as we have come to expect them. This is a practice of transformation. By intertwining photography into everyday objects such as shirts and bags I examine the idea of fine art photography and its accepted conventions of display. By transforming everyday objects into photographs, I offer an alternative mode for the presentation of artwork. Moving into the landscape, both urban and natural, the work goes on to examine the relationship of artwork and its site of installation, thinking of Robert Smithson’s ideas of the site/nonsite relationship, where the documentation of the objects serves as the nonsite representation of the site specific works.