street photography. film/digital (selection).
some things last a long time (2021 - ongoing)
analogue shots of everyday life. title song by daniel johnston.
10 PHOTOGRAPHS OF STRANGERS FOUND AT LES PETITS RIENS & MATCHED WITH WORDS ON A CHRISTIAN LACROIX SHIRT, ALSO FOUND AT LES PETITS RIENS, ON JANUARY 17, 2025
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the artist Ed Ruscha made a habit of cataloguing the ordinary and binding it into slim, conceptual photo books with titles like Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, and Every Building on the Sunset Strip. These small books recalibrated what art could be & what photography could mean, what is worth looking at and capturing. I thought of Ruscha on a rainy afternoon in Ixelles, wandering through Les Petits Riens. What drew my eye first was a Christian Lacroix shirt, printed with an incongruous list of words. Next, a box of orphaned photographs: strangers dotting swimming pools and lining wedding tables, out-of-focus pets, a hand raised to block the lens. Without meaning to, I began to pair them.
en regalia (2021)
during lockdown, i began making collages using vintage nudie magazines like Playboy and PlayMen. what captivated me wasn’t the glossy bodies splayed across glossy pages, but the curious clutter that surrounded them. a taxidermy rug, a plastic water pistol, a Coca-Cola cup balanced on a dusty television showing a donald duck cartoon. what happens when you zoom in, crop out the skin, remove the sex from the frame? what you get is a new kind of image: something oddly tender, banal, human. the world around the body.