Fractional Landscapes

Fractional Landscapes explores the experience of moving through natural, built, and cultural environments, and our attempts to conjure and express these sites in memory and narrative. As ever-smaller bits of information from myriad sources bombard us on countless channels, and we confront the multiple breakage points in the worlds we inhabit, our ability to form a coherent vision of those sites—both collective and individual—is nearly impossible. These images—with distortions, fault lines, mashups, breaks, and bends made in-camera as I move through and across these spaces—attempt to depict this aspect of contemporary life and give viewers an analog for the sense of dislocation and anxiety that accompanies it. On a more personal note, the project has its origins in the final year of my mother’s deadly descent into Alzheimer’s. The experience of witnessing her dissipation, her unwinding, is also reflected in this work. Read more.