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Risograph
8.5 x 11 in
2023
From the Untitled Boston Series
This set of images emerged from a process rather than a concept: curating a selection of images around a place to create a narrative and drawing connections, real or imagined. I thought of this process as taking a walk through my neighborhood: each piece focuses on a naturalistic landscape within 2 miles of my home in Jamaica Plain: the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond, and Franklin Park. I used Digital Commonwealth to move across time and space, exploring well-tagged digital collections of photographs, books and documents. I selected images related to specific locations or keywords then used a risograph machine to experiment with layering text and image to create or complicate meaning. Potentially disparate materials from the collections are assembled together in the manner of an exhibition panel or moodboard, illustrating speculative histories. In a city like Boston which has been so thoroughly documented and institutionalized, yet rich with underrepresented and forgotten people, places, and moments, exploring the archive is just one way to engage deeply with place and time.
Risograph
8.5 x 11 in
2023
From the Untitled Boston Series
This set of images emerged from a process rather than a concept: curating a selection of images around a place to create a narrative and drawing connections, real or imagined. I thought of this process as taking a walk through my neighborhood: each piece focuses on a naturalistic landscape within 2 miles of my home in Jamaica Plain: the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond, and Franklin Park. I used Digital Commonwealth to move across time and space, exploring well-tagged digital collections of photographs, books and documents. I selected images related to specific locations or keywords then used a risograph machine to experiment with layering text and image to create or complicate meaning. Potentially disparate materials from the collections are assembled together in the manner of an exhibition panel or moodboard, illustrating speculative histories. In a city like Boston which has been so thoroughly documented and institutionalized, yet rich with underrepresented and forgotten people, places, and moments, exploring the archive is just one way to engage deeply with place and time.