This is travel photography, but not the kind of travel that you usually do for fun, and not the kind of photography that is well-suited to travel.

I spend a lot of time on the road, commuting for work and school, covering more or less the same routes with great regularity. Stay alert! Do not become sleepy or get lost. The images in this series were created using an 8x10 view camera with a homemade digital scanning back, which I sometimes bring along with me in the car. The camera's unusual visual tendencies (native monochrome, heavy vignette, sensitivity to the invisible spectrum, and wave-like record of motion) serve to make the familiar foreign -- a vehicle for renewed attention to habitual paths.

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY (2008-2009):

This series calls attention to the traditional nature of a photograph as a depiction of, or window into a scene. This characteristic is typically transparent to the viewer, peering through the frame at illusionistic space beyond the gallery wall, at a representation of three-dimensional space.

Photographing things like windows, mirrors, barriers, and tightly framed two-dimensional surfaces, brings awareness of the truth of a photograph as an illusionistic object, by almost depicting a framed photo within a photo (window), highlighting the frame as a part of the illusion itself and calling out the physical surface of the photograph as an object (mirror), interfering with/obstructing the depth illusion from taking place (barrier), or creating a sculptural (trompe l'oeil) illusion (object/surface).