Sweet Broth, A Cure For Those Windows

Full Circle
Baltimore, MD
November 10, 2018 - January 5, 2019

This body of work was created during my color darkroom residency at Full Circle, a gallery and photography center in two combined old row houses in Baltimore. I used this period to build layered chromogenic photographs centered around gender, sexuality, family, and domesticity; utilizing color to reimagine these ideas, and explore the space between fiction and reality.

These images are made in a unique process, where I make images on black and white negatives and bring those negatives into a color darkroom, selecting each color individually and often adding multiple layers of exposure.

Tarp (Self Portrait) is part of an ongoing effort to represent the temporality of being non-binary. The images become non-representational self portraits focused on somatics, and the articulation of self through the actions and poetics required of their body in the color darkroom.

Sweet Broth, A Cure For Those Windows, a 80 x 128” silver gelatin photograph made up of multiple sheets of photographic paper, is collapsed single 35mm image, furthering my interest in expanding and contrasting architecture as a means to explore complex notions of self, gender, and representation. This work is a meditation of traditional family structures and values, pictured is a collapsed Parisian scene, with a woman staring back at the camera from an apartment window above.

 
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Le Bonheur

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
Diptych
24 x 40”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Installation view of Le Bonheur
 
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Ray Johnson

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
24 x 20”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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María Tinaut

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
19 x 16”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Installation view of Ray Johnson and María Tinaut
 
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Tarp (Self Portrait)

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
24 x 20”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Je Tu Il Elle

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
24 x 20”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Installation view of Tarp (Self Portrait) and Je Tu Il Elle
 
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Installation view of Tarp (Self Portrait) and Je Tu Il Elle
 
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Installation view of Rip, Reclining Nude and Red Nude
 
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Rip, Reclining Nude

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
20 x 16”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Red Nude

2018
Chromogenic Photograph
20 x 16”
Edition of 3
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Sweet Broth, A Cure For Those Windows

2018
Silver Gelatin Photograph
80 x 128”
(32, 20 x 16” Photographs)
Unique
(Printed by the artist)

 
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Detail Sweet Broth, A Cure for Those Windows