One aspect of my work is to examine how digital photography influences our memories and our concept of an appropriate presentation of the self. Since photography has moved into all the spaces and situations we inhabit, my aim is then to depict images that are softened, cooled, warmed or distorted by the camera and reabsorbed by the viewer as reality.
How does it distort and disproportionately emphasize fleeting activities and momentary emotions? How does normalize or romanticize conventions and behaviors for the sake of a digitally fashionable image?
I re-create these environments, simultaneously depicting the immediacy and spontaneity of digital photography while focusing on light and shadow to convey a physical and psychological effect. I feel that the tangible nature of painting, as separate from the “realistic” quality of photography, underlines the illusion of the process for the viewer.