the process:

I photograph sites from my life (essentially, Chicago and vacation sites) and distort those photos into something other than their original 1's and 0's (using an effect called Displacement). They become impressions of the original photograph. It’s interesting to me to photograph a moment from my life and turn that image into something that is no longer an accurate representation of what the camera lens captured, yet is still a moment that I lived. The final product is no longer a photograph in the traditional sense, yet every layer used in the composition is derived from a single photo.

To me, the images create a sense of viewing the past, a sense of something familiar, but not definite. Escapism in one form or another. A state of personal fantasy. The distortion I use pushes beyond the reality of the original photograph and warps the idea of time and recognition. The final goal, in its purest form, would be that the image allows the viewer to momentarily live outside of their own personal reality and sense of time.