“There is a point where light bends, where glass dissolves into air and water, and where the structure of matter itself seems to hesitate, to flicker between states. It is in this liminal space that I am intrigued.
The [(glass - water - light) assemblage] is an [(action - object) experience] — to help observe the complex calibration of how we experience material, space, light, time, and consciousness.
Yet I strive to remain grounded in the silence of ambiguity and the ambiguity of silence.”
I’m interested in living systems; phenomenological instruments that alter, shift, and recompose themselves in the act of being seen. I approach space as a non-neutral entity of sorts. At its core, the interplay between the material and immaterial, and the seen and unseen, is where substantive meaning is formed.
Fluidity, transience, and the organic intelligence of both natural and human systems are as informed by the laws of physics and quantum mechanics as they are by mystery and contemplation, resulting in works that suggest entropic equilibrium, dynamic instability, and the ceaseless transformation of matter. And it is here, in the interstices, that I look to discover a sense of equanimity.
Manufactured Turbulence, 45-4088, 2023, Archival pigment photograph, 36” x 48”
“In the Manufactured Turbulence photographic series I’m looking for an edge between the material and the ephemeral, capturing the elusive choreography of water and light in their infinite manifestations.
These are acts of perception, studies in movement and stillness, with each frame an inquiry into the physics of fluid dynamics and the metaphysics of seeing.”
In these works, turbulence becomes a kind of language, an articulation of unseen forces. These compositions evoke oscillations of light and perception, where water distorts, conceals, and reveals; a medium that both defines and destabilizes. Each photograph is an event rather than a document, a record of a moment in motion, where time is suspended yet in constant dissolution.
If the installations and sculptures bring water into lived space, the photographs distill its essence into the two-dimensional plane, extending his inquiry across mediums. Together, they form a continuum :: sculpture, installation, photography :: each a facet of the same philosophical pursuit: the nature of perception; the fluidity of form; and the thresholds between what is seen and what is perceived.
Manufactured Turbulence, 45-3881, 2023, Archival pigment photograph, 36” x 48”
Manufactured Turbulence 16-8140-2, 2024, Archival pigment photograph, 36” x 48”
Manufactured Turbulence 16-8074, 2024, Archival pigment photograph, 36” x 48”
Manufactured Turbulence, 42-2994, 2023, Archival pigment photograph, 36” x 48”
