I work to discover, foreground, and then reconstruct the underlying orders that determine and restrict our access to knowledge. I develop systems that create objects for the purpose of drawing visibility to the deterministic relationship between systems and their resulting orders. Through a photography/installation-based practice I utilize source materials such as natural history collections, historical documents, and organizational texts and charts (dictionaries, maps, color charts) By reordering these objects I intend to question the authoritative grasp of empiricist reality, point to the contingency of our knowledge, and release new forms into the aesthetic realm. My projects are attempts to access the additional value or knowledge that is obscured by the existing system of control. The generative systems that I develop, based on principles of randomness, arbitrary rules, or alteration have the effect of reducing authorial subjectivity and activating the dadaist idea of an "art making machine". |
