A few years ago I was more or less a traditional photographer, but recently I have been embracing my impulse to introduce materiality to digital images—to reconstitute them in a physical body. The works in Pure Semblance are UV printed photographs on bubble wrap. Often discarded after a single use, bubble wrap mirrors the fleeting nature of digital pictures easily shared and forgotten in our media-saturated world. The bubbles allude to individual pixels rendered tactile. The works demand the viewer spend time with them—some are only legible from the right angle or distance, and up close are almost completely abstracted.
Pure Semblance invites the viewer to reconsider the way they interact with images, and emphasizes the importance of texture and materiality in an era dominated by the intangible digital realm.
