"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

—William Carlos Williams, from  Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

WHAT IS FOUND THERE recontextualizes images from 20+ years of story assignments, NGO commissions, and personal projects, challenging the dominant paradigms I worked within and asking how such witnessing might be deconstructed and reimagined to vitalize novel and syncretic possibilities in knowing an infinitely diverse yet inextricably connected world.

Each polyptych intuitively combines images made at different times, in different places, and with different intentions. While the assignment and commissioned images document recognizable and familiar social or environmental issues—and so may still evoke meditations on ways we live on the planet and with each other—the physical manipulations of the surfaces and deliberate creation of new objects (hand-mounting; painting and drawing on the images; and surreal compositions in intuitive collages with variable relief) prioritize the symbolic language and subjective nature of photography over the literal documentation of facts. There is no place, date, or caption information provided, nor are the personal photographs annotated in any way. They are not meant to be evidence, explanation, ironic juxtaposition, or to provide specific answers. These works instead hint at the original subconscious inspirations for the moments photographed, while embracing the viewer’s agency and sovereignty, and inviting them to discover their own novel narratives. The process engages the photographer, the photographs, those photographed, and viewers themselves as they surface their own truths about themselves, their place in the world beyond themselves, and the interconnectedness of human experience.