Projection Projects
My current photography series, The Vacancy Project, is a comment on the over development that has occured in Brooklyn since Bloomberg's new re-zoning laws from 2005. Many of the luxury condominiums that were built during the housing boom, have been left empty - a reminder of the danger of eager developers whose over zealous construction has now left 143 stalled sites in the city, 63 in Brooklyn alone. Through the projection of images onto these finished and unfinished luxury condominiums, I aim to show what could have been, what once was, and what the community surrounding the delapitated unfinished buildings would have prefered to see.
The In Defense of Food and Omnivore's Dilemma series present photographs created with the use of projected images of processed foods, corn and soy. The inspiration for these images is from author Michael Pollan's brilliant explanations of our changing food landscape in his books of the same name. These texts provide an important awareness of the corporate control over what we put into our bodies and the overly manipulated production of food, which has had an enormous negative impact on both our bodies and our planet.
The use of projection in these images creates an atmosphere of impermanence and transformation and further exemplifies the prevalence of artificiality within the unstable, overly commercial, and dangerously careless corporate food industry.
For more information on Michael Pollan and his writings, please visit www.michaelpollan.com
Various images is a selection of photographs that I created when I first began working with projection. Most of these images are inspired by nature and allude to a pervasion of artificiality in our natural world. Also shown here are the first of my body and food images which inspired the In Defense of Food and Omnivore's Dilemma series as well as images from the New Intimacy Project which explores our new dependency on technology for even the most intimate of exchanges.