These photographs are from a collection of architectural abstractions, in which I strove to find some sense of order, as well as illusion, in the banalities of urban life. Some of these photographs show a very rigid, ordered reality, while other photographs take a perspective which may cause second thoughts about the seemingly understandable world around us. The colors, light and textures all act as their own geometric shapes, arranging and rearranging themselves into images which are either straightforward, or slightly less definable. 

These are photographs I have taken to demonstrate my ability with controlled lighting equipment, studio portraiture, glass and reflective objects, and still lives. 

These images are from a body of work documenting the working class of my hometown, Henniker, NH, and the surrounding towns. These images are shot using a 4x5 view camera, and in every way strive to match the hard working creativity of the working class with the same intensity in my work. The medium evokes a sense of nostalgia, and takes a lot of diligent work to create an image: I found that this both mimics working class ideology, as well as lending a platform by which people of different generations and backgrounds may find commonalities. 

This project was inspired by many different things: from personal artistic expression, personal experiences during this time in my life, painters, photographers, movies, myths, dreams, and philosophy. At this point, I was very much into Salvador Dali, James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Viconian Cycles of History, Chomsky, David Foster Wallace, and other great artists and thinkers: those who focused on the inner machinations of the mind, especially minds which are influenced by pop-culture and environment. I was fascinated by both the quality and control of light I could get using the technique of handheld flashlighting the scene, as well as exploring the thematics around the sleeping mind, dream symbolism, interdisciplinary allusions, and narrative arcs applied to photography. These photographs are arranged in an order which presents the viewer with the descent into consciousness, history, contemporary culture, philosophy, science, and other wanderings of the unconscious or asleep mind.