Process | I spend a lot of time with a camera. As any photographer knows, it takes hundreds of photos to get the one or two good shots in the batch. These digital collages are made with the unused in-between shots. Each image is typically between one and ten layers of photographs. Starting with the base layer, a photo is blown out and distorted until it is almost unrecognizable. Then a new image is layered on top, and the process is repeated. In the end there is a completely new, abstract composition. The compound image is flattened into a single layer, and the production file is deleted so that the work can never be separated. Consequently, I am the only one who could identify the places and their relevance. Without me, they stand alone as new artwork with no past. Time and space become the medium, and so it follows that I would have little control over the outcome of the work.