Matters

At some point, I found myself less interested in using photography in a self-reflexive way. I wanted to make images that were conscious of their contextual limitations by not laying claim to total objectivity, but nevertheless attempted to reflect enduring conditions that can be observed and felt through everyday movements within the world. Meaning: being satisfied with partial knowledge, instead of being preoccupied with the impossible condition of having all perspectives on any given thing.

These most recent images are more focused on the particulars of found environments - and, by proxy, the specificity of circumstances. I have so many questions. How can observing these particulars lend some insight into how everyday human problems are resolved on an anonymous and universal level? And, more importantly, how does the coincidental + uncanny + humorous + unpredictable arrangement of manmade and natural objects (as a byproduct of everyday human activity) undercover basic patterns of behaviors and needs, ranging from the aesthetic to the pragmatic?

I'm trying to think about these relationships between objects and the forces that act upon them and with one another. What are the consequences of one thing coming up against or becoming entangled with or rubbing off upon or being conceptually or physically similar to another? How changeable are all of these things? How much of these things should be changed?

I'm constantly searching to find a balance within all situations as they relate to time. What is the connective thread through conditions that seem permanent (i.e; a root growing into a curb, a contradictory intersection of street-signs), things that can be shifted or changed easily, and therefore seem precarious (a crooked concrete fence, a plank propping open a window), and situations that are immensely transient (combustion, cloud formation, any physical gesture a person can make)?

It the end, it all comes down to a matter of perspective. The relation from micro to macro, and vice versa. How can certain assumptions be extrapolated or consolidated, depending on scale? It all matters. (And, they're all matters.)