My current work is largely concerned with the psychological impacts of the urban landscape. Advertisements, signs, markers, graffiti and other written elements collude into an increasingly dense visual environment, one where potential meaning of said elements become so much psychic noise. In this environment, the sign (in either the semiotic or semiological meaning) becomes split, leaving signifiers which are "detached" from their signified, and therefore detached from their intended communication. I contend the psychic noise, the detached signifiers and overall visual disarray of the urban landscape contribute to our increased amount of anxiety and other emotional disturbances which seem to spread exponentially. I feel this anxious, nervous energy, and, in a sense, thrive on it. I attempt to capture it photographically in an impulsive, anarchistic manner; the intrinsic speed of photography suits expressing this phenomenon well. After collecting several hundred photographs to choose from, I piece the final images together in an impulsive and circuitous manner to emulate the modern urban landscape.
All pieces are untitled and come in variable dimensions.