Homegrown (work in progress) 2009 - Present
Home Grown: Projected Connections utilizes different mechanics than my traditionally based portraiture, and culminates in an installation: two panels of animated projected images (combined on grids of individual frames) that intermittently exchange through hundreds of individual photographs in a dynamic shifting portrait of Philadelphia neighborhoods. The two panels were photographed using two different cameras (one camera is a cell phone camera with no control over field of view or exposure) and reflect different experiences of the overlapping neighborhoods. The different camera views acknowledge the importance of perspective on experience, the influence the viewer brings to interpreting images, environments and individuals.
The large scale allows for the conglomerate of connected neighborhoods to tower authoritatively. The dynamism of interchanging images presents an engaging and nuanced portrait through which viewers receive the controlled chaos that approximates the complex interaction of need, expectation and experience present citywide. The viewer steps into the landscape of recognizable street scenes consumed by the power of photographic imagery to usurp the conscious and subconscious defenses, to engage our cognition immediately, emphatically, even unintentionally with this visual embodiment of interwoven neighborhoods.
