The works are a reaction to questions about truth and the media.
I’ve taken popular photographs from my past and obscured them with new typography. More recently, this has developed into purely typographic work using clear messages that are deliberately disrupted.
I called the collection In Plain View. All original works are available to purchase for the first time at Superfine, booth W37, and will later be available to view and purchase here on my website, along with limited edition prints.
Tickets for the show are available at https://www.superfine.world/nyc-tickets.
I’m exploring the idea of the obvious and non obvious, right to your face but also abstracted. When I’m using it on top of photographs I’m just stating the obvious, saying exactly what it is that I see, but in that way abstracting the reality of the image itself.
I always like using text, it’s a super beautiful thing. In my old work it was used totally abstracted, the words were purely a visual element, so I’d take parts of newspapers and mix them all up to create a visually different message. Then years later I started putting messages on the works, some were very clear so you can read them, and some very abstracted, like cutting the word in half, layering the letters so you don’t really read what it says but if you look more carefully the message is there. It’s like having an image of an apple and writing apple on it: that act abstracts the apple that was obvious before.
We used to write long essays, but now it’s brief texts of abbreviations and no grammar. One of my favourite things is to listen to slang, my favourite songs are from dialects of specific neighborhoods, all the misspelling and wrong words, there’s so much beauty in all that.
