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Photographs aren't real. This work is a way to start that conversation—a conversation I invite you to engage with. Images today are changed dramatically with a filter, a caption, a comment, etc. There are many influences in the ways in which we see the world around us. We hold value to different things and to varying degrees. What I hope is that my work starts, if not continues, a dialogue. Art shouldn’t be a question proposed to the viewer. Rather, it should be an open-ended discussion in which the artist and viewer have equal stakes in negotiating a consensus. Tackling this endeavor as a photographer is challenging. The preconceived notions that separate photography from other mediums like painting, illustration, and sculpture persevere. Despite this, my work interrogates the notion of photography as real and instead proposes a perspective that puts forth the fictions mediated between the subject, image-maker, and image-consumer. Through oftentimes laborious methods, these works, in their finality, force an interaction between the macroscopic and idiosyncratic. Between you, me, and everything else.

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