From the beginning my goal was to put my process on full display. I photograph architectural sites and spaces I come across, and then distort the original structures to fit my own vision by using those photographs to create drawings, and then using those drawings to make paintings.
Months pass between taking the original photograph on my phone and making a painting. Returning to these photographs months later serves to refresh my memory of the original location and the sensory associations that shape the memory. These memories then define what colors and paints I use, and sometimes the amount of control I allow the paint to have itself.
Eventually my interest in photographic processes compelled me to digitally combine the paintings with the photographs they reference in an effort to return the paintings to the architectural spaces they derived from, making a negative of sorts that could then be used to make darkroom prints.
These images are the most concise description of my process from beginning to end. The architecture is stripped of its context, its necessity, and rendered useless, yet still shown objectively, its original form, untouched but in conversation with a new medium.
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