Statement

My work seeks to question the pervasiveness of corporate culture on our daily existence while exploring the impending loss of self-reliance that results from this dominance. I work in a variety of media including photography, video installation and sound.

Both the After the Crash and After the Fold projects explore the daily layoffs in the US and around the globe reminding us that structure is constantly in question and thus challenges its very own meaning. After The Fold includes a series of 6 photographs documenting the folding of the magazine for which I worked at Hearst Magazines- a company I was employed by for 10 years. With two weeks given to the staff to gather our emotions, our memories and finish our "work," the space that held part of our creativity and a large portion of our time was emptied and became devoid of identity. 

After The Crash continues this exploration with projects in video performance, video installation and sound. Untitled #2 presents a 4 minute sound piece inspired by and created from 600 minutes of interviews with the laid off. Untitled #4, a 3 minute 15 second video installation loop, presents the image of a woman in an office chair rolling back and forth in a hypnotic trance, progressively getting frustrated with her entrapment within the work space. With my most recent video series, I invite fellow laid off New Yorkers into my studio to perform in a process where they black out a projected image of the building in which they used to work. The final still is then photographed, creating a static and monumental image.

The Vacancy project- an ongoing series of photographs, is a response to the over development of Brooklyn, my birthplace and current hometown. In this project, I have physically and literally projected appropriated photographs of old Brooklyn and other relevant imagery onto the omnipresent luxury condominiums that have aggressively been built around much of Brooklyn. One of the images shows a flock of birds projected onto the glass exterior of the Richard Meier Condominium at Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope.  My decision to project birds is born from the understanding that The New York Audubon society is greatly concerned by the building’s ambitious height since the building stands in the direct path of the thousands of migrating birds that fly to and from Prospect Park, a well known bird refuge in Brooklyn.

Projection is used within all of my current work as a medium in and of itself. The use of projection creates an atmosphere of impermanence and transformation as well as a collapsing of mediums. This transient form mirrors the self-slippage subtext, reinforcing my investigation on the fragility of our daily lives. 

My most recent projects involve the deletion of particular segments of a photograph, which are then replaced into the photograph via video projection. One such work includes a video overlay onto a 10x20 foot photo mural of a large construction site on West 41st street. This piece highlights the over arching theme of my work. The powerful construction site at first moves slowly and then rapidly to suppress the inferior building across the street which happens to be the Hunter MFA headquarters- a building which is currently under threat of being removed as more and more large developments and luxury condominiums rise around its perimeter.