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Artist Statement
Inner Architectures
In Inner Architectures I am playing with the language of the familiar built world, linking segments of architecture in synthesized panoramas. The photographs consist of imaginary spaces that extend horizontally like the sweep of a person's eyes as they move around a built space. These images are like an architect's dream of buildings intersecting, or of the world as entirely constructed, with no real outside anymore.
I photograph buildings as a collector, devouring walls, bricks, pillars and doors for the materials I need for these fantasies. Later I play a relentless matching game, looking through my catalog of noble, ordinary and ruined structures for possible junctures. I feel somewhat like a set designer, borrowing from the syntax of familiar architectural styles and surfaces to make a synthesis of a strange contained world. I build these new spaces digitally, simply placing segments of my images side-by-side and allowing the brain to do the architectural fusion.
Space exerts its energy on our unconscious and can be remembered as enveloping, coercive or even threatening. Memory and emotion are embedded in our experience of architecture, distorting our clear perception, and contributing to an inner map for navigating the world. In this work I am examining how we inhabit space, and how it inhabits our minds.