The "Postmodern" Psychodynamics of Visibility
The images which comprise this body of work (scroll down) are mixed media on canvas and were developed in constant "visual conversation" with digital imagery and image manipulation software. The first image on the page (directly below) is a work in progress, additionally, there are three others in this series (not included here) that are at various stages of completion. This body of work explores the psychic position of the Observer as it is constructed within the popular U.S. cultural imaginary. Each composition positions their viewer through a cinematic gaze in which cultural assumptions regarding the subject positions of the "visible," the" invisible" and the privileged surveyor are meant to be made explicit. The framing also invokes late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century obsessions with the panorama as a form through which one has the world splayed out before them, infinitely understandable, rational, and masterable. The thread which connects each piece to the other can be found in the idea that contemporary culture relies on visibility as its prefered technology of othering(self-ing), and that this technology itself draws upon the overdetermined strains of its own history to legitimate its enterprise.

(Reminder: Flickering sign systems - such as websites - are stubbornly and strategically interactive.)