RED ORANGE (select images)
Red Orange describes a landscape in which images and environments are no longer stable, but provisional—subject to interruption, manipulation, and reassembly.
Photographed across California, the work moves between desert, suburban edges, and temporary interiors, treating all spaces as constructed. The images are made through a daily rhythm of movement and return: photographing in the landscape during the day, then working at night in motel rooms—spaces defined by transience and standardization. These interiors function as makeshift studios, where materials gathered along the road—discarded items, thrifted objects, and personal effects—are arranged and photographed under controlled conditions.
Fences, reflections, and color shifts operate not as incidental details but as active elements that interfere with perception and structure the image. In the landscape, color is introduced through gels, producing subtle but deliberate dissonance. These interventions do not transform the environment into something else; they reposition it, revealing the scene as already contingent—conditioned by perception, technology, and intervention.
The still lifes mirror this condition. Constructed from provisional materials and photographed in temporary rooms, they foreground their own assembly. The hotel room becomes a neutral container where objects can be staged without attachment to place, collapsing distinctions between interior and exterior, control and drift.
The portraits are sourced from mediated imagery and physically altered—torn, fragmented, and reassembled—so that the image no longer functions as a stable representation. Rather than depicting individuals, they expose the photograph as an object that can be handled, disrupted, and reconfigured.
Across all images, the same condition applies: forms are interrupted, surfaces are mediated, and meaning is not fixed but constructed. The work does not depict a surreal world, but one in which stability has already given way to systems of control, translation, and continual reconfiguration.
