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Contested Spaces explores a New York City landscape of vernacular architecture inhabited by discarded household and industrial objects. This work developed out of daily meditative walks in my studio neighborhood in Brooklyn, a terrain of the marginal spaces in which everyday life occurs (what Henri Lefebvre called residual space). This practice of walking and taking photographs focused my attention on the debris of material culture: commonplace objects, construction materials, signage and the repetitive grids of grilles and security fencing. My walks document a mixed-use neighborhood where homes and industry contest for space, adjacent but divergent. I’m particularly attracted to the qualities of modesty and the unexceptional in urban landscape, and to the inadvertent connections that materialize out of unexpected proximity.
These web-based animations use the extended horizontal of an extreme panorama and ambient sound to create a scrolling, fictive urban space. This landscape of 3D objects and 2D photographic pattern upends pictorial conventions of scale, perspective and lighting, to present these discarded objects as iconic characters populating a terrain of material culture.
These landscapes are created by combining photographs and 3D models and are shown as animated panoramas and as Giclée prints.The window size and scroll direction are user controlled as is the panorama speed.
In Contested Spaces: Digression, the objects move independently of the background, creating a deeper sense of space and changing visual conjunctions. Individual sounds are fixed on a specific object so that audio fades in and out as the viewer scrolls by, mixing with a track of ambient street sound. This creates a more spatialized sound environment.
Animated panorama with spatialized audio and ambient sound. Use headphones for best effect; Giclée print, 13.5 x 92 inches.
“Digression”
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The first series of animated panoramas with ambient sound track. Giclée prints, 7 x 92 inches.
“The Myrtle Walks 1,” 2018
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“The Myrtle Walks 2,” 2018
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“The Myrtle Walks 3,” 2018
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“The Myrtle Walks 4,” 2018
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“The Myrtle Walks 5,” 2018
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“The Myrtle Walks 6,” 2019
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“The Myrtle Walks 7,” 2019
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“The Myrtle Walks 8,” 2019
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A series of simple scrolling panoramic images exploring iconographies of construction sites, shop windows and vacant corporate interiors.
“Blue Industrial,” 2017
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