Fragments
2012/2021
57 unique gelatin silver prints measuring between 1x1 inches and 9x13 inches; individually framed and presented as one work.
Fragments consists of cut down test strips printed from negatives shot in February, March, and April 2012. Much later, while printing, I became interested in the way the fragmentary test strips abstracted already ambiguous images.
As a group, the prints become signs and symbols suggesting a narrative. Many objects hang, surfaces are marked, torn, and touched, and there are many paired objects, fragmented bodies, and forms of concealment (as in black windows and opaque bags) and completeness (as in Virginia Woolf’s complete diaries and wrapped packages). These fragments coalesce into one artwork whose meaning cannot be decoded. The prints are intended to hang salon style in a specific configuration to help tease out the visual motifs within the group. The arrangements in this presentation approximate that hang, and the inclusion of multiple prints per page is meant to emphasize visual relationships between the images.