I like to build things without a plan. I always have, but of course Covid changed everything.

I stared out the window and made drawings of the window screen. I began miles-long masked walks in my Brooklyn neighborhood taking pictures lightly organized around family landmarks and visual themes, like unpeopled front porches and empty flower pots. Both parents did chunks of growing up around my neighborhood, but I only learned that after I moved here in 2008. I'd unwittingly planted myself at the beginning.

The photos evolved from themed essays to abstractions -- images from the minutiae of our everyday world: cracks in the sidewalk, "blank" walls, building fragments. The photos captured meeting places, of shapes, lines, textures, edges, colors, and site. The abstractions exceeded the specificity of the essays by tapping into ideas about relationships, dominance, co-existence, time, and decay.

My current work is finding ways to materialize and dimensionalize the photos -- to expand (literally: build onto) what they represent for me.