Context I
2014

Digital Photography

This series addressed for the first time questions that continue to appear in my mind: what is real?, what is considered authentic?, what's the relationship between what appears to be and what is? In these eight digital photographs my focus centered on the appearance and quality of the black spots on the white background that were originally city lights amidst the dark night sky. Each photograph was converted to black and white and then inverted to visually bring it closer to an airbrush or spray paint on a white surface. Thus, the photographs play with the perception and notion we have of materials based on their visual characteristics. Each of the photographs' titles is a number in German, which if read by somebody who doesn't understand the language would produce a similar phenomenon to that present in the images: a play on perception and familiarity on an element that is ubiquitous, commonplace.