FACTORY-BERLIN

Though based in New York City, I gather imagery as well from the months each year I spend in Europe.
I am attracted to the crumbling facades of architecture, bearing the weight of its own history as well as of its time and place when constructed. A building is the witness of subsequent periods from those who have lived their lives within to those who have briefly passed through its walls. Though inorganic, the buildings contain remnants of a human touch. The palimpsest of older cities hovers around the cities that are built upon them.

In my work, spaces fluctuate between the surface and glimpses behind it. The relatively small scale draws the viewer into the representation of a world that offers reality with a twist. It invites an intimate, thought provoking relationship between participant and the work. Spaces are uninhabited, uninhabitable but entice the viewer to enter and discover the unexpected. One’s sense of order and proportion is challenged, as the implied presence of life coupled with the subtly disturbing images evokes an uneasy response and re-evaluation in the viewer, who begins to realize that things are not what they seem.

For me, the vestiges of this church bears a great symbolic weight that transcends a mere religious structure. It stands as a reminder of a civilization that was, one that withstood centuries, only to be destroyed, not by the elements, but by the choices of men in power. We play with our heritage, our own fragile hold onto our culture assembled through the ages. We create ghosts with the necessity that they haunt us, so that memories are woven constantly into the present and are transported with us into the future.