Artist Statement

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Artist Statement

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My interest in the materiality of photography led me to begin printing on canvas in 1998. At the time, I was working in a digital studio using a Leaf DCB II camera back. Because the digital file lacked tangible material and there was nothing to hold onto or anything that would drop to the ground, it inspired me to find a way to make palpable, tangible photo objects.   I found myself at odds with what attracted me to photography and how the medium was morphing. The advent of digital technology separated the photographic image and the medium further than the difference between a Daguerreotype and a silver gelatin print.   I began with a standard sewing machine and later incorporated hand stitching and embroidery. The domestic act of sewing becomes an actual attack on and healing the images' surface. The needle punctures each photograph as it sutures multiple moments into a singular unified representative of reality. This gesture articulates my relationship with photography as the medium splits along its technological fault lines and transforms itself in alarming and beautiful ways.  Purchase a perfect-bound 30 page 8" x 8" book here for $20