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Playground
Playground: 2024 – In collaboration with John Wooden.
From 1962 to 1972 I lived in Mayfair, a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia. Built during the post WWII period, the neighborhood includes narrow, one-way streets and a net of alleyways designed to accommodate off-street parking. The arrangement set basements at street level, allowing for a small patch of green space on each property.
These basic features were easily repurposed into play spaces by the neighborhood kids. Each image shows a specific place used for various kinds of play. The prosaic brutalism of the environment, with its raw beauty, was energized and enlivened by this inventive reuse. I wanted to show these spaces, from an early period, as play, or the act of playing, defines the spirit and life of the artist.
Hotel Window Series
Hotel Window Series: The environments recorded in this series are limited to views available through hotel windows during
periods of travel. In these single frame images and panoramas, the views are predetermined, removing
selectional obligation from the process. This grouping forms part of a set recorded through multiple visits
to China.
Removing the Interstate Highway: Speculative Fictions # 1
Removing the Interstate Highway: Speculative Fictions # 1
This is the first in a series of fictional works derived from photographic images. Here, an imaginary scenario is triggered by images taken during the demolition and rebuilding of Interstate 95 as it runs through Philadelphia’s northern river wards. In this narrative the highway is not rebuilt, allowing for the playing out of a cascade of positive (perhaps utopian) effects.
Against Government
Against Government
Images of Western landscapes with compromising features. The title is suggestive of a general ethos characteristic of the region.
Various Projects
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
Everything And Nothing
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fibre Rag - 52"X25" - 2024
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
This is a series of images of a breached reservoir in southern New Jersey near Swedesboro. The images were taken over a few years during weekly visits to the area. I was impressed by the ongoing cyclical changes to the environment in contrast to the constancy of the damaged forms of the reservoir bridge. In thinking, as always, of social and economic relations in the US, a Russian saying comes to mind: in Russia over three years everything changes. Over one hundred years nothing changes.
Storage Grid
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 36" - 2024
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Selected views from the storage facility where I rent a space.
Color Field: From the Shipping Container Series
Digital Print on Canton Platine Fiber Rag, 45"X 32" - 2024
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
This is a studio set-up image taken during the summer of 2023. It consists of approximately 1,500 miniature shipping containers painted in slightly saturated versions of colors available on the container market. The largest units measure just under 2 inches in length. The pieces were fabricated by hand then caste in multiples.
The Shipping Container Series imagines possible reuse of these raw, brutalist forms, primarily as residential structures. (All of the units here are retrofitted with windows and doors.) With their absolute uniformity and basic utilitarian character, the containers serve as a contemporary, symbolic form of architecture - not to mention their declarative meaning in a commodified, globalist culture.
The composition here is simply a field of the available color options, organized in an alternating pattern of temperature, value and chromatic intensity.
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