Fracture Factura Statement

The series Fracture Factura utilizes appropriation, abstraction and collage to arrive at a statement about the nature of the static image.  The source materials for this work are photographs printed on glass, which I have appropriated from a production facility in Gainesville, FL.  These source images can be separated into three distinct categories: corporate images, decorative images and sentimental images. Once in my studio, the photographs are shattered and then reconfigured into new arrangements – new photographic realities. The act of breaking the glass is an iconoclastic gesture that frees each image from its original orientation and allows for the existence of new visual relationships. The pieces are rearranged, not with a strict connection to the source image, but with an emphasis on texture, color and the unplanned nature of the cracks and ruptures. The glass shards are placed in real space, with attention paid to creating foreground and background relationships, thus collaged in a spatially oriented way – distinct pieces, flattened and unified through the mediation of the camera.  The resulting images resemble stage-sets or landscapes through subtle allusion.  The treatment of these source images acts to disrupt the aesthetic categorization of images and allows for the creation of new narratives for the viewer.