(un)framing vision

Forming compositions requires more than just looking, it’s vision with care and deliberation. Just as a frame encloses an image, it opens up an infinite range of new ones.

Striking configurations were created by scanning three single cut-out paper frames over photographs inside various library books. The selective and playful subtraction of the photos through a circle, square and rectangle lense results in a compilation of compositions within compositions that demonstrate the infinite possibilities of careful looking.

9.5”x13”
Coptic Binding
Laser Printing
148 pages
Edition of <10

10.2021

This book displays adapted imagery of molding bread along with photos of space from NASA’s archives. The concept draws inspiration from Leonard Koren’s writing on Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi. The juxtaposition of the expanding universe and an ordinary example of decay, looks to communicate the fine line between creation and destruction, and considers the encounter of the two as an opportunity for new life.

7”x8.5”
Japanese Binding
Laser + Risograph Printing
Edition of <10

With time, we turn the visible world into designated meaning and language, replacing looking with thinking. This book honors a fundamental, child-like experience of the world, one understood primarily through form and matter.

Familiar objects from our environment are shown as seen through the negative spaces of other objects around them. The reader may find underlying connections and meaning between them, forming their own sense of the world.

From sky to ground, the images are arranged by viewpoint, indicated in the side of each page. Full bleed images hide in-between, prompting curiosity and discovery.

11.2021