Solicited Memories
”Solicited Memories, give us a portrait of structuralist photography turned on its head — not so much documents of a style in time but of architectural motifs that are out of time — expired, conscripted and repurposed structures. In such a series of photographs we are made to question not only what forms subsist beneath the willful transformation of a familiar food chain but also what persists in an economy of disposability, decay and redistribution. Functioning as a subtle cartography of the commonplace, the images allow us to investigate the temporal division of before and after through so many indices of visual and structural displacement. Through varying degrees of indexical similitude we can locate a subject that is almost indiscernible at first glance — visible only through a few architectural ticks, instances of mixed or remodeled signage and the discrete attenuation of franchised building caught up in a process of erasure. That the structuralist idiom has to be rethought in an economy of accelerated consumption seems obvious, but that post-structuralist stratagems could be posited alongside socio-economic, historical, infrastructural concerns and even the process of enculturation — that is a decided challenge to the carrying capacity of the image.” - Grant Vetter, curator + art critic
Installation of Erasing Traces, Autonomie Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011, all images are 12 x 15 inches, archival inkjet prints (wet-mount scanned) from 4 x 5 inch large format negatives