2017 - 2026 Details Project

Inspired by the Evidence collaboration between Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel as well as Sol LeWitt's PhotoGrids, Details is an exploration of zoomed in images of minutiae. It is an exploration of marks, patterns, and signs of weathering. These are details of human impact and manipulation cut off from context to emphasize the aesthetics of wear and tear that typically go unnoticed in our daily lives. In addition to individual photographs, Details also explores levels of granularity and the limitations of rendering minute details of details as visible through dissecting selected images into 121 individual sub-photographs printed as Instax prints and re-assembled as wall installations. While individual works in the Details series have no subtitles or otherwise identifying characteristics, video elements created for this project and their highly edited video/audio components were originally recorded by happenstance in a number of places ranging from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to the exterior of 47th Street Red Line CTA Station in Chicago.

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