artist statement

Aching leg - smell of rain - brimming heart - heavy bag - car exhaust - groan…this meeting - seagulls screaming - wonder how she is - stillness in the train - they look sad - look up from your phone - nice smile - cool shoes - what’s that song - oh no…he’s folded in half on the sidewalk - step back step back - pang pang - must absolutely call her today - oh look, would love to go in, don't have time - please move faster - please move over - please go ahead - private worlds, earbuds and phones - church bell…I’m a kid again - that light on the building - why does she get so under my skin - open car hiphop thump - vape smell - sneeze cough - parking garage…that smell: it’s Montreal, holding dad’s hand, now Toronto…twenty-one, feeling unsafe - deep inhale, ocean air - santoor strumming in the park - it’s really her stuff, not mine, but it often doesn’t feel that way - crows crows - am I overhearing or am I eavesdropping - is that Russian - mountain glimpse - soap store always too much - sidewalk garbage picker…I’m nineteen, summer job, wrong boyfriend - shawarma, hot dogs, cigarettes - I’m hungry, wait till home - woah look at that outfit, don’t judge don’t judge - many legs, dodge weave - conference name tags dangling flapping - oh man…is that me reflecting in the window?

Shifting, porous, all at once, all the time.

In my hybrid photography-drawing practice, I disrupt my urban photographs with drawings, marks and image transfers to hold this interference in visual form. Maybe we are all walking, breathing interference patterns. What changes when we start to notice this: in ourselves, and in the strangers around us?