Forgeries

I made Forgeries to make something and be rid of something else. 

I used my own images, burning old 11 x 14 in. c-prints and re-photographing them as they bubbled, burned, and turned to ash. The results take the purposeful, documentary glee of camera-based photography and ignore all its certainties. 

Called “Forgeries” to refer both to the copying of an image and to the burning of one in a forge, these pictures watch the life seep out of a photograph, and pour into a new, more material vessel. They were shown at Van Doren Waxter Gallery alongside a set of collages by Joseph Cornell.