Pilgrimage
2013
Digital photographic prints, gold and silver leaf
Dimensions vary
Level
Quadrupled Grasshoppers
Passerby
Sightings
Sixty Dead Birds
Dust On Sight
Icons
Mistakes On Salt Lake
2013
archival inkjet print, gold and silver leaf, tape
8 x 10”
The very nature of taking a photograph creates an image I desire to see as truth, but instead the object of a photograph itself is a skewed record of perception. The mistakes both the camera and I make in seeing repeat themselves as mistakes in technique. Although I shoot and print photographs in digital format, I choose to let each photograph remain unedited, calling attention to both my amateurism and the faults of the tools and materials themselves. I embrace my own imperfections as a more honest approach to experiencing reality by acknowledging my shortcomings.