Un Conjunto de Ideas

It is only recently that I’ve become really interested in digital imaging again. I wouldn’t say I was maxed out or was “over it”, I just needed a break to recharge my batteries and was looking for some inspiration, or perhaps just one thing to inspire me the same way my Dom Pérignon Abstracts did.

As it happened when I started working on Four Letter Word, I started exploring the arts and innovation in the Greater Boston area and beyond. As a result I started shooting a lot of events and people again and without realizing it I began to document not just the events but also the relationship that develops between people and art, but particularly public art. As I worked researching, writing and photographing these events a question formed in my mind that couldn’t be answered in a straightforward fashion.

What happens when people and public art collide?

Created over a two year period from 2017 - 2019 Un Conjunto de Ideas, (“A Combination of Ideas,”) is a series of digital photo collages which explores that question and reflects on art as a catalyst for not just inspiration and self discovery, but also as an agent of change.   This series visualizes the dynamic fusion of people and art and reflects on their symbiotic relationship not as a cause and effect but as a partnership and a transformative experience that is mirrored through the transformation of the body work.

Combining a traditional documentary style of photography with a more nuanced method of digital collage, this series takes a lot of inspiration from street art and surrealism. In creating the images I want them to be clearly of photographic origin but I also wanted them to feel imbued with movement and have a painterly. By taking advantage of the unique capabilities of the digital art medium as well as the unique characteristics and location of each event I was able to construct a series of images that reflect on the nature of creativity, individualism and community.