UNDERFOOT
Envisioned as a long-term project, these color compositions stem from the most mundane settings, and offer up secret worlds. Hidden in plain view, they are driven over, walked over, and sometimes covered with trash—and yet encompass a rich Platonic world of shapes, textures, and contrasts.
The images ask questions about emergence and disappearance, about persistence and transience. Is dirt covering road markings obscuring them, or are they coming into view from underneath? Does the original direction of arrows sprayed onto sidewalks still matter in the frame? Do details of patterns hold more meaning than the complete design?
In this context, the significance given a symbol by its maker becomes lost, and irrelevant. Our attention is now directed in an entirely different direction, and we become authors of a new meaning: a shattered bottle behind a gas station might now be a constellation, a cluster of stars in a gravel sky, the promise of its liquor long since broken.