In this body of work I attempt to visualize the liminal space – created by the immaterial networks, which exist within modern cities – employing the fog as a metaphor to render the invisible, visible. Inspired by J.M.W. Turner’s paintings of Venice, in which he captured the lightness of the floating city in the mist, my images intend to transcend the forms of painting and photography to a hybrid of the two mediums. The dense fog in my images are created from a layering of mosaics of more images – every photograph I’ve taken on a mobile phone and uploaded on to Facebook, screen captures from the popular American television program Gossip Girl, as well as screen captures from the movies Wall Street (1987) and Wall Street (2010) – that function to obscure and blur your vision and perception of space. The artificial fog fragments and blurs the actual space in the image, suggesting that the reality of the virtual world in which most of us (including myself) coexist in. With that being said, I hope as well to generate further discourse on the subjects of dissemination of images in contemporary culture and the future of the photograph. (more…)

In this body of work I explore the ‘First World Problems’ faced by contemporary society by constructing and photographing ‘Monuments’. The photographs exaggerate reality and the spaces are transformed by the objects that occupy them. The objects of our consumption, the commodities we fetishize have formed these ‘monuments’ – the mountain of clothes, the towers of food and the shrine of the screen – that can only exist in the first world. I hope to reveal the absurdity of our contemporary ideologies, our freedom of choice creates problems within our problems and society is enslaved by freedom itself.