| FROM AN ABANDONED WORK

PHOTOGRAPHY + DIGITAL PAINTING

“I had been thinking about ways of combining photography, painting, and generative AI when I recently found myself driving through Los Angeles Chinatown — a square mile that, pre-pandemic, vibrated with activity. The dim sum palaces stood empty, half the stores were shuttered, malls were abandoned, and windows were tagged with graffiti. After an hour of exploring the area on foot, I began taking pictures of my reflection in the plate glass windows of an empty restaurant on Hill Street.”

Self-portrait and street photography combined with generative extrapolation and digital painting, From An Abandoned Work I, 82” x 42”, which takes its title from a short work by Samuel Beckett, invites the viewer to explore the relationship between reflection and observation, presence and absence. By contrast, From An Abandoned Work II, 80 x 38”, begins with a different photograph from the same sequence, but explores the space behind the reflected surface as extended landscape.