▶︎ These Inadvertent Marks, is a
photographic investigation of scuffs, stains, bruises, residue,
scratches, holes, and blemishes. These marks are byproducts of human
intention. I consider those marks that are largely deemed trivial
and peripheral as a means of challenging ordinary value systems and
surrendering to the unconsidered. I make these photographs as I
wander: a process of discovery and close consideration of urban
streets, private homes, airports, bathrooms, alleys, and
storefronts. This artistic and theoretical inquiry considers the
possibility for these marks to be read as meaningful texts and
viewed as beautiful objects, despite their lack of design and
authorial intention; it asks questions of the constitution of signs,
establishment of meaning, excess of intentions, and interpretive
instability. Through an investigation of these inadvertent marks, I
look to highlight the uncontrollable flux, turbulent drift, and
recalcitrant shifting of the status of meaning.
▶︎ I use the medium of photography
because I believe the act of photographing, as well as the resulting
images, fundamentally shift the perspectival, temperamental, and
psychological position one holds toward the world. Thus, my use of
photography offers an opportunity to rediscover everyday
environments through a monumental alteration of perceptual
normativity. I hope that those who view my work would slow down; to
question the very structure by which we are able to move through the
world at such great speeds; to pause and consider the things which
we have chosen to ignore through our hierarchies of value and
utility, things that have plenty to say but to which we have kept
our ears shut and eyes closed.