OSCILLATION
In this ongoing series, I am interested in the messy headspace in which most of us live - the sense that one's mind is playing multiple radio stations at once - and how this is amplified by the layered rhythms and dynamic energy of urban life.
My digital/analog process begins with photographing scenes in Vancouver. Back in the studio, I create charcoal drawings on paper in response to music, allowing sound to guide the gestural marks. I then digitize these drawings and layer them with the black and white photographs in post-production, improvising until photograph and drawing feel integrated.
The resulting images invite viewers into their own experience of mental shifting while moving fluidly between photographic specificity and gestural abstraction. Some areas reveal sharp architectural detail and human presence, while others dissolve into passages where the boundaries between photograph and drawing completely vanish.
The series encompasses large format works (24x36") that invite immersive viewing and smaller, more intimate pieces (12x12") that focus on fragments of urban experience.
