“Outside In” Series
As a photographer, I’m more like an illustrator in that I create visual representations of ideas. I begin each series by drawing inspiration from the everyday world around me. I come up with a concept and then I create sketches for the ideas that I have envisioned using my imagination. The final images are created using tools of digital imaging. These constructed photographs are composites made by using multiple images. The images are performative in that they are photographs of constructions and set ups, both inside as well as outside. Exploring my conceptual and subjective, or inner space, these private tableau explore the intrusion of the outside into the inside. I have always loved working in photography for its veracity by creating work that looks real and ‘normal’ but that is odd and quirky. I transform the ordinary to create surreal, subtle, and poetic images that cause the viewer to do a double take. I am interested in nature, surrealism, self-examination, and classic street photography. Like many artists of the surrealist movement, I juxtapose and use unexpected imagery as a way of revealing myself as well as provoking new ways of looking at the world. In all of my work you will see elements of camouflage and concealment that reflect my internalized homophobia as a gay man.
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