Pigment prints, collage, 129" x74", 2014
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence, both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
archival pigment prints, collage, 51" x 161", 2015.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
Pigment prints, collage, 67' x 46" each, 2014.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
Archival inkjet prints, collage, 58" x 51", 2013.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
Archival inket prints, collage, 55 1/2 x 44 1/2, 2013.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
Pigment prints, collage, 34” x 48", 2014.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence,both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.
Pigment prints, collage, 100' x 46" each, 2016.
I shot source material for Slabs at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence, both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.