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cross sections

These images are "cross-sections" of several memories. For each one I chose a specific theme or action ("blacking out" green growths, tracing fissures, or filling in rough edges, etc) and selected 5-10 photographs that I took in Phoenix, Detroit, or Sintra, Portugal and used crayon and tracing paper to highlight a specific element across the photos. I took a lot of pictures in these three places because they all exhibit different types of decay within different spreads of time and show how people interact with their surroundings and vice-versa. Many of the pieces from this series were made using the same photographs, but each product differs as the guiding action changes.

Screams of Green in Black, 2024

Destruction and Decay in Phoenix, AZ, 2024

What’s Left of a Straight Edge, 2024

Rocky Divisions / Natural Borders, 2024

Shutting Out the Lights, 2024

Spontaneous Organization, 2024

Figure Chasing, 2024
Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   The ceremony of innocence is drownedThe best lack all conviction, while the worst   Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at handSurely the Second Coming is at hand.   The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   When a vast image out of Spiritus MundTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know   That twenty centuries of stony sleep    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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