abstract
The production and manipulation of the photographic image reinforce our expectations of an existence where our desires are embodied in mediated reality. To illustrate the power of the photographic image and its role as a mechanism in shaping and staging contemporary symbolism, I photograph electronic waste and visual static. Similar to the repel of two magnets at odds with each other's polarity, the video camera has been turned toward the screen of a color video monitor, capturing the feedback. Stills from these raw images are digitized and saturated. The results are depictions of chaos, fabricated patterns, implied textures, depths, and the phenomenon of synaesthesia that are most often left up to the discernment of the audience, but simultaneously seem intent on establishing associations with more representational imagery.