Artist Statement
I’ve always been intrigued by the hidden details of the world around me. There is something beautiful about leaving the obvious and focusing on the lines, patterns, and colors that make up our world. Light and shapes can blend into the background of everyday life, but when you close in on them and isolate them, you can see beauty reflected in the simplicity of repeating patterns and refracted light.
People don’t appreciate the beauty of the details in the world around them, and I want to use my photographs to show beauty in the little things. Focusing on the details opens up whole other worlds while leaving the reader to interpret the abstractness of the photograph. I want to see how taking a tiny fragment of a scene and pairing it with another photograph can create a new vision of abstraction that inspires deeper reflection.
I am using diptychs to exemplify the relationship between the viewer and the photograph; When I put two photographs side by side, they interact with each other and the conversation their juxtaposition creates is what I am looking to create. I’ve focused on pairing images that flow together while having jarring differences that contribute to an intense, abstract overall image. There is always more to things in life than what you see directly on the surface, and viewers can see that through my diptych photographs.