Dejado
In these images I focused on more subtle details of decay and abandonment. These concepts come in intense and raw forms, but sometimes when distilled down to basic, graphic and formal views, take on a calmer beauty. I feel that this depends very much on a more serene...
The Culture of Waste
1.Culture exists in both what we consider to be vital and what we consider decayed. One must not overlook the latter as possessing its own culture, identity, and interests. It is this division between the cultural high and low that subjugates either side to the...
Por La Barrera
This collection of images focuses on moving closer to home, youth and a sense of playfulness, while still relating them with the decay that can be found surrounding it. There is a spectrum that can be seen within this life cycle, beginning with falling to the ground....
Desguaces a poco
This collection of images pursues the space between terminal decay, and reuse. Junkyards serve as a layer cake graveyard for our machines and objects, sometimes ending up pulverized into the rusty soil beneath them, other times picked down to their skeletons. In these...
Renacer por nadie – digital color
This collection of images is intended as a turn towards color as a source of revitalization. Conversion to black and white seems to add to the death of these objects and focus on their state of decay. In searching for their colors I have found a sense of life that...
Self Portrait: 10.4.2011
Industry and Product
This collection of images seeks a broader view of disposed human objects as they come to rest in locations of decay. Surrounding these objects is the landscape they live in with particular details of industry, or in some cases, of activity past. These landscapes...
Abandon
As I have been coming to understand my own work of all media better, I realize the importance of walking and finding marginalized spaces. The locations where human possessions come to rest and be forgotten seem to draw me to them most. It is the act of traversing...
