Expansion
First there was contraction. Then came expansion.
I rarely picked up a “real” camera during COVID, but I never put down my phone — while at home, and as we began to venture beyond the confines of our own property lines. That ever-present camera serves as a notebook for anything and everything that I need to remember, whether that’s a loved one’s face, a shopping list, or an appealing collection of visual shapes and structures.
Decades ago my work centered on finding the structure and form in my daily surroundings, but those formalist bounds loosened over time. Most recently, just by holding and using a different device to make photographs, that initial instinct returned.
Still, something seems different about these images. They celebrate structure (and structures), compress depth, reveal layers, and feel more succinct than previous efforts. To me, they stand out like the brief understandable phrase plucked from the din of a crowded event.
