Research

The theme of stillness pervades my academic research and conceptually based practice, concurrently constructing a dialogue with the history and theory of photography. My work is located in the abstract concepts of absence versus presence, the entrapment of time, site specificity, and the documentation of a recorded moment. My future research is directed at the mediums of photography and film, positioned to examine specific moments of the Gothic starting in the 1800s and leading up to the contemporary. Of primary interest are instances fixed between ideologies: the mystical/occult which can be related to the invisible – an absence; and the industrial/scientific that is tied to the visible – a presence. Situated in a duality, photography and contemporary art exist between the material and immaterial, production and research, the artist and academic. I locate artistic agency and theoretical discourse in an engagement with scholarship, production, and curation. I see the PhD program facilitating a unique chance to advance research of an interdisciplinary nature while augmenting the context of current art and scholarship in contemporary society.

Image List

Banana Peel (Still)  2005  Chromogenic print on aluminum, wood box-frame, polyurethane, paint  1.02 x 1.27 m

Fantasy Gardens  2006  Mounted Kodachrome slide, vintage 35mm projector  Dimensions variable
[Installation view and detail]

i.t.  2007  Silver gelatin print 1.17 x 1.54 m 
[Production still from i.t.  2007  16 mm transferred to high definition,
3 min 30sec]

The Dungeon (Time Switch)  2007  Polyurethane and paint  Dimensions variable
[Installation view and detail]

Darkroom 14  2008  Polyurethane and paint  Dimensions variable [Installation view]

Hold Me Forever #10  2009  Chromogenic print on aluminum  1.02 x 1.27 m