I spend – My nights

(Waiting / For)

Fables from,

The ocean (and owls)

(Crooning) / On the branch

I spend / My days – (Listening)

– For fireworks, from

The city

And cars / Careening

On the (block)

Part of a larger series concerned with the abstract possibility of words. By resisting the inherent predispositions of language to assign coherent meaning, I found it quite malleable. Through this body of work, I’m attempting to deconstruct traditional communication, in favor of a more abstract approach, following its own logic.

The words found within these pictures are groupings of disparate images themselves, whose totality communicates some (perhaps vague or opaque) meaning, even if it makes little sense at face value. The groupings are meshed with images to highlight their visual impact as symbols, as well as provide a third context beyond the words individually and as a whole.

Mental connections drawn between the images and the words are the crux of how these photos manage to translate meaning to the viewer.