the Dead and Dying of the Analogue world

 

This series of work spanned from 2007 to late 2009, and dealt with anxieties, both personal and national, of crisis and identity. Much of this work was informed by certain ideas in Zelinsky's The Cultural Geography of the United States, in which he explores the spatial character of America's unique cultural identity. My interest lays in what remains of this ravenous character in this, our post-productive age.

I consider much of this work to be a form of portraiture – I call it ‘landscape portraiture’ – in which the surroundings mirror exactly what is felt, reflecting ones state of mind at the time. In this way, these are not simply paintings of buildings and structures, but self-portraits in which I am surrogate to their often-overpowering presence, each of us starring into the other in the here and now. It has all to do with where and when one finds themselves, and what that means.