Artist Statement
From found images, I create part-analog and part-digital compositions that balance each other out in disorienting ways. My photographic collages contain imagery of dreamlike encounters between organisms and machinery. I am influenced by Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway, two authors that have made important contributions to discussions about the human and non-human. In the spirit of Tsing and Haraway’s calls for delight in the confusion of boundaries, I play with the mild discomfort felt at the interface between binaries such as man/machine and human/non-human. I process my paper collages digitally to fill in paper cuts, edges, and shadows until their borders reach a compromise—sometimes changing only one pixel at a time. Negotiating the boundaries between each piece of paper allows me to practice taking responsibility for the boundaries themselves. My goal is to create versions of reality that confuse more categories than they divide.
Artist Biography
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