Selected Images from Latent Architecture
2020
Installation view, Angelina College, Lufkin, TX, 2021
Blue, 20 x 22 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. - Jean Baudrillard, America
Working primarily with photography, I create digitally collaged photographs works that explore the impact of desire, simulation, and perception on our contemporary landscapes. Through the abstraction and articulation of source photographs, these digital collages become metaphors for movement through place and for the collective residue found in the spaces we inhabit and travel through. Within each digital collage, the constructed locations depict elements abstracted to color fields alongside hyperreal detail. The individual pieces within this project all have similar formal elements and objects; this subtle repetition forms a visual language of a distant, latent architecture washing to the surface.
Boxes, Warehouses, 20 x 22 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Installation view, Angelina College, Lufkin, TX 2021
Grey Awning, 20 x 20 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Two Cars, 20 x 24 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Red, 20 x 20 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Installation view, Latent Architecture, Gallery 406 Elon University, North Carolina, 2021
White Awning, 20 x 24 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Dogs, No Bicycles, 25 x 25 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Clouds, Bicycles, 20 x 20 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Tow Zone, 20 x 20 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Blue Corner, 20 x 22 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Blue Wall, 30 x 34 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Installation view, Latent Architecture, Gallery 406 Elon University, North Carolina, 2021
One Car, 8 x 10 inches, archival pigment print, 2020
Installation view, Latent Architecture, Gallery 406 Elon University, North Carolina, 2021
Work from Latent Architecture written about in Glasstire, One Work, Short Take: Leigh Merrill, by Matthew Bourbon
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