Source image taken of the remaining foundation of the now abandoned and demolished Canada Packers Plant in Edmonton, Alberta.
The image was then split into smaller negatives and placed in clear envelopes in front of sensitized blueprint paper. Each Envelope was then sent to the Canada Packers Plant. Because the site has been demolished all of the envelopes were marked return to sender and arrived later at my home.
The photo sensitized blueprint paper was then developed allowing whatever light it was exposed to during its travel to artifact and create the section of the image.
Finally, the image was reconstructed and mounted together.
Negative inserted in envelope ready for mailing.
In the creation of a traditional blueprint lines drawn by a draftsperson are reversed. Pencil, pen, and other opaque media act as a resist between the photosensitive media and the light source. The end result creates a white line wherever an intentional mark was made on the original.
This ongoing project uses blueprint technology as a photographic substrate. Photography involved here requires me to assemble and create subject matter to photograph that when reversed feel natural. This is acheived by photographing ephemera printed in negative, and objects like fluorescent tubes that darken after their discard rather than emit light.
2016-2017
Discarded and outdated phone books sculpturally altered, photographed, & printed in cyanotype (blue print).
Approaching the layers of phonebooks as an archaeological matrix (material that holds and surrounds artifacts).
The book on the left was cut through to find the names of rocks while the book on the right was cut through to find blank space. Each approach reverses what is valued in an archaeological excavation and artifacts.
Solvent based digital print on poly-vinyl // 44" X 85" // 2016
Xerox prints, 2015
93.5" x 49.5"
Xerox prints
Text created from vinyl collected from other exhibitions that have passed. Text was then documented and translated in various ways and in various states of removal.
Wall Piece :
Silkscreen print and black cut vinyl on perforated vinyl. (perforated vinyl mounted on OSB board)
Book work:
Digital on photo backdrop paper. Portfolio box made of oriented strand board. Only some pages shown.
A project in collaboration with Morgan Melenka for the exhibition: Prints in Peculiar Places.
Exhibition took place at the Southern Graphics Conference International, Knoxville Tennessee 2015.
All prints are reductive/semi-reductive woodcuts mounted on MDF for installation purposes.
multilayer woodcut on rag paper // 3' X 4' // 2015
multilayer woodcut on rag paper // 3' X 4' // 2015
multilayer woodcut on rag paper // 3' X 4' // 2015
multilayer woodcut on rag paper // 3' X 4' // 2015
T-shirts purchased at a second-hand store were photographed while I was wearing them. This photograph was then screen printed onto the shirts before installing them back into the second-hand store.
2015
This project consisted of recording a plexiglass plinth photographically from all angles in order to create a two dimensional construction. The image can be folded to recreate the plinth's original dimensions. The image was then transferred to a single concrete block and installed at the original site it was photographed (an abandoned used car-lot).
site specific digital Image on concrete
2015
Digital inkjet on photo backdrop paper. // 2016
Digital Inkjet print on photo backdrop paper. // 2016
Digital inkjet on photo backdrop paper. // 2016
silkscreen & digital Inkjet on rag paper // 2015
photo lithography & digital Inkjet on rag paper // 2015
silkscreen & digital Inkjet on rag paper
2015
Silkscreen on rag paper
2015
silkscreen and digital on rag paper
2015
silkscreen on rag paper
2015
Silkscreen on rag paper // 2015
silkscreen and woodcut on rag paper. // 2015
Silkscreen on rag paper. // 2015
A post was observed from a near by building with a camera and telephoto lens. Anyone who looked at the image(s) on the post was photographed, printed, and posted under the last.
2015
