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Window and Wind | Thesaurus of Air

 Window and Wind | Thesaurus of Air

2024- ongoing

Selected Installation views and images

Window and Wind, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle William Turner watercolor paper, 33 x 42 inches, 2026, Edition of 3 +1AP

Window and Wind, Solo Exhibition Installation View, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2026. Image courtesy of Kevin Todora.

Window and Wind is a collection of photographic collages that trace the boundaries between human activity and the environments in which we live. I use photography as a means of thinking through how we construct reality: I am interested in photography's ability to be evidence of existence, an image with seeming veracity, and simultaneously, a system to mediate and interpret reality. Working with thousands of individual photographs I have made of architecture and landscaping, I digitally assemble these sources to create images of fictional spaces, echoing the sense of perpetual longing built into the American landscape. In Window and Wind and Thesaurus of Air, photographs have been combined, layered, redacted until the photographic information opens into something more fluid, an image that reflects but reinvents the spaces in which we inhabit.

Window Wallpaper, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle William Turner watercolor paper, 32.5 x 42.5 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Installation View: Thesaurus of Air solo exhibition at LHUCA, Lubbock, TX, 2025.

Thistle, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle William Turner watercolor paper, 32.5 x 42.5 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Window and Wind, Solo Exhibition Installation View, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2026. Image courtesy of Kevin Todora.

Concrete Ocean, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle William Turner watercolor paper, 33 x 42 inches, 2024, Edition of 3 +1AP

Thesaurus of Air, Solo exhibition installation view, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX 2025.

Thesaurus of Air, Solo exhibition installation view, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX 2025.

Blue Windows, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 16 x 16 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Pollarding, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 16 x 16 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Sunset Wall, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 16 x 16 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Tree with Lights, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 16 x 16 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Lost Pine, Double Pine, Solo exhibition installation view, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2026. Images from “Thesaurus of Air".

Blue Road, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 16 x 16 inches, 2025, Edition of 3 +1AP

Window and Wind, Solo Exhibition Installation View, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2026. Image courtesy of Kevin Todora.

Blue Light, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 10 x 10 inches, 2026, Edition of 3 +1AP

It Snows, and the drifts are taller than me, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 10 x 10 inches, 2026, Edition of 3 +1AP

Orange Rind, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 10 x 10 inches, 2026, Edition of 3 +1AP

In the Afternoon, digital photo collage on Hahnemühle Musuem Etching paper, 10 x 10 inches, 2026, Edition of 3 +1AP

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