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185 07 2006
184 07 2006
everything i have pt.2
take a picture of everything i have. hold them out in front of me one at a time. (take the shot of the box and then all of it's contents in a row.)
157 06 2006
146 05 2006
_do this
to every photo i take:
053 02 2006
_floating people
jesus floated didn't he?
people that have been hung or hung themselves 'float'
superman can float.
suicide and superpower
039 02 2006
_haptic photos
this is for a series of photo portraits. in each one reach out and grab the person (or thing) i am photographing.
grab them by the neck. put your hand on their face. touch them. poke them. gag them. punch them.
003 01 2006
_Jesus, Me, Dad
photo of me jesus and dad. all on one or 3 separate images.
_above / below
take photos above things and below things and put them together
_Day After Day
photo series and objects that have been worn throughout the project
series of series:
proposals (marriage)
days at work (in desk)
accidents
coffee
ah fake or real?
real... just photograph the patterns in your life.
244 09 2005
_Motion Camera
get a number of those hunting cameras that are triggered to take photos by a motion sensor. have them all over the walls in the gallery and when the film or battery dies or the sm card fills up have people in deer suits go out and change what needs to be changed.
make them the camouflage ones. position them on the white wall of the gallery.
165 06 2005
_Flying Objects
Medium
• photography.
Intent
• shoot familiar things in unfamiliar ways.
- not so original.
The Work
•Status: Concept.
- take pictures of things thrown in the air. catch them floating.
310 11 2004
Last Supper
Medium
• Digital C-type print
Intent
• freak people out by showing them the food that death row inmates are eating for their last supper.
The Work
Status
• Concept.
Form
• Documentary/Series
Size
• 30in. X 40in.
The Title
The title of each piece will be named after the inmate whose meal is in the photograph. For example, a photo from above with the cafeteria tray filling the frame titled John Doe May 4, 2004. The date refers the day of the execution.
255 09 2004
go to heaven - go to hell
Medium
• In situ public installation. Photodocumentation of street sign.
Intent
• The piece has to do with the way that we often talk about Heaven and Hell. We talk about them as actual places like Australia or Oregon. We have so much information and documentation of them yet nobody can go there, nobody can point to them, nobody has seen them. This project is an attempt to validate these places by making them feel ordinary and closer to us through mundane signage.
The Work
• Status
- Complete
• Formally the sign is a cruciform and sits at the intersection of two streets. The sign is both literal and figurative. In Mircea Eliade's book, The Sacred and Profane, he defines a sacred place as a place that is marked, bound, and identifiable. As opposed to a profane place, which he would describe as amorphous, boundless, and unidentifiable. It is the difference between space and place. According to this definition this intersection can be considered a sacred place. I don't know why this is important but it seems to have some significance.
Go To Heaven
Go To Hell
•The sign is easily mounted on top of an existing stop sign or street pole.
254 09 2004
map of heaven - map of earth
Medium
• 480 polaroid photographs and steel support. (ongoing project)
• Approximately 1ft. tall by 70ft. long. (only 40 feet of the total piece is installed at Sierra Arts)
Intent
• Present a methodical, rational, and literal view of the Earth and Heaven from a first person perspective.
The Work
• Status
- Complete.
• This project was born out of the idea: "I only see what is in front of me" and moving away from a representational artwork. Heaven is often represented as clouds or in the clouds. I wanted to take these religious metaphors literaly and make a map composed of photographs that document every squarefoot of the Earth's surface. In this case the photographs of Earth were taken from the height of my head and looking straight down. The photographs taken of Heaven are from the same height but looking straight up.
253 09 2004
grandfather
Medium
• C-type print of me and my cremated Grandfather.
Intent
• I really don't know what my intention is.
The Work
• Status
- Complete.
• I was in the garage at my Father's house when I found my Grandfather.
I moved the shovel to the left and picked up a white cardboard box that weighed a lot for its size. On one knee, I held the box in one arm while the other lifted the lid. Inside was a brown plastic box. It took me a minute to pry the lid of the plastic box. Inside was a plastic bag filled with grey matter held closed by a piece of wire. The same wire with the paper coating that you close your fruits and vegetables up with at the grocery store. I knew who I was holding now and as my heart-rate tripled. I looked behind me to see if there were any witnesses. It felt like I was caught looking at pornography. I closed the boxes and put them back and pretended that nothing had happened. In my hands I held my Grandfather. He was very dead. He was very burned. I was in the garage at my Father's house when I found him.
I have since gone back to the scene. Picked my Grandfather up and took him. He is right behind me now. At my desk. In his boxes.
•The next iteration of this piece will be a photo of me, my father, my brother, and my grandfather.
249 09 2004
cause of death
Medium
• Digital C-type print
Intent
• Statistics show that 146 000 people die everyday in the U.S.. Statistics also show that only 10% of all deaths occur in the hospital. Where are people dying? Why don't we ever see it? These portraits of the dead take place in ordinary places and in ordinary ways. One of the main intentions is to bring places and events that we know of but never experience to our attention.
The Work
Status
-Complete.
C.O.D. #001_Overdose
C.O.D. 002_Severed Spinal Cord
C.O.D. 003_Heart Attack
The Title
In this series each title has three parts. The first part is the abbreviation of the name of the series, which is Cause of Death abbreviated C.O.D. The abbreviation has reference to D.O.A. (dead on arrival) and Credit on Delivery and in a tangental way to B.C. and A.D., which marks the life of Christ. Credit on delivery is a shipping term that means a package will be paid for upon its delivery. In this context we can apply that to the body and the afterlife. It is only after dying that one knows whether or not they are going to Heaven or Hell whether or not they will recieve payment for their life so to speak. The last reference is of interest because although i never show my face in the photographs I am the subject in all of them. The only other time we know of where someone has died more than once is in the life Christ. In a way I am resurrected after each photo only to die again. The second part of the title is the number. The number identifies the pieces place in the series and the number of times I have died. The third part identifies the cause of death.
218 08 2004
i-80
Medium
Digital C - type print
Intent
not applicable
The Work
•Status: Complete.
183 07 2004
Between God and Dad
Medium
• C-type prints of Jesus and my family.
Intent
• Bring attention to the things Jesus never did that we intend to. Things that we wouldn't feel a complete human had we not completed them.
The Work
• Status
- Concept.
• A portrait of Jesus as he is typically represented in painting will be on the right. To the left will be a profile shot of my brother, then one of me, then my sister, and then a portrait of the back of my father. In between God and my father is the children (and maybe my mother). The difference between my father and Jesus is that my father has children. He also had a wife. Most of us intend on having children and most of us plan on getting married. Why didn't Jesus get married or have children?
206 07 2003
Faces You Don't Know Me By
Medium
• Digital C - type print
Form
•Representational / photo documentation.
Intent
• not applicable
The Work
Status
• complete.
Here i took 200 pictures of all the faces that you dont know me by. Overlapped them and reduced the transparency of each to ten percent. Unlike the traditional photo, which captures a single moment in time and space, this technique captures lengths of time and entire spaces. Giving, maybe, a more accurate representation of what i really look like.
154 06 2003
8 seconds 287 meters
Medium
• Digital C-type print
Intent
• not applicable
Formal Concept
• a transparency of layered images.
The Work
• Status
- Complete.
8seconds 287meters
