The Discomfort of Not Knowing

In my photographic series, "The Discomfort of Not Knowing," I continue to compose with my own work and bits and pieces from my practice as a whole. These images were created with water, dye, my sculptures, pieces of studio debris, and paintings on paper in a white tray gifted to me by my mother in law. I believe the tray was originally used as a photographic developing tray. Water in these works serves as both the reminder of the fleeting nature of moments and nods towards the tradition of painting with the fluid gestural imagery that arises.

These images play with our human tendency to want to make sense of things, to seek out the representational amongst the non-objective and abstract. At a young age we are taught to find representational objects in abstract forms, and naturally tend to do it. I am interested in this process of trying to make sense of things through creating and composing. I think it’s a metaphor for how one may try to seek to understand happenings in one’s own life. The abstract and the non-objective are uncomfortable.

Series of photographs taken in 2021 and 2022. Complete series not visible here.

These are single edition photographs. I will only print one edition per size and 1 or 2 Artist Proofs. Each image only comes in two sizes. Sizes: 17 in by 13.25 in, 10 in by 8 in and 24 x 20 in (only a few have this larger size as one of the editions)