Photographs

Inspired by the typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher, and by Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1973 “Fake Estates” project, I photograph property lines. These are spaces we pass on a daily basis and never see. The demarcations themselves are both real and imaginary, lending themselves perfectly to photographic inquiry.

I’m interested in the dichotomy, or tension, that exists between flat and deep space, or two and three dimensions. By approaching my subjects exactly on the property line, at ninety degrees, neighboring houses are cut off and tend to become flat, graphic elements while still reading as physical objects with three dimensions. I’m trying to explore a type of space that really only exists when viewed in this way, like Bruce Nauman’s 1966 sculpture “Platform made up of the space between two rectilinear boxes on the floor” or Rachel Whiteread’s inside-out London house.

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