Artist statement
Geometry is the means, created by ourselves, whereby we perceive the external world and express the world within us.
Geometry is the foundation.
It is also the material basis on which we build those symbols which represent to us perfection and the divine.
It brings with it the noble joys of mathematics.
Machinery is the result of geometry. The age in which we live is therefore essentially a geometrical one; all its ideas are so orientated in the direction of geometry. Modern art and thought—after a century of analysis—are now seeking beyond what is merely accidental; geometry leads them to mathematical forms, a more and more generalized attitude.
Le Corbusier, The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning, 1924
My artistic practice is grounded in the recording of quotidian personal experience in visual terms. The tension between that which is directly experienced, that which is remembered and that which is known is fertile soil for nourishing a substantial visual experience both for the artist and the viewer.
With these photographs, I examine the chaotic structure of a modern construction site. I found as I continued to photograph the site over time that the apparent chaos was simply the superimposition of multiple default structures, each internally logical and organized.
The necessities of communal activity create a continually shifting complex of objects; tools, supplies and waste. The space is organized primarily by practical consideration not by a desire to reveal the true nature of the emerging building.
The grid rules all but its expression within each segment of activity is specific and personal. Together all the grids are ruled by a grid invisible to me as an outsider, the ideal vision of the architect expressed through the grid of the blueprints. This abstract ruling principle can only be deduced from the repetition and focus of the grids of scaffold and machinery as they conceal and make manifest the completed structure.