Look Up

 “The ‘Look Up’ series plays with the way mobile devices function as both an extension of our reach and a partition to our view. The photographic objects from the Look Up series began with an impulse to adhere a ‘screen protector’ to the moonroof of my car. The resulting photos made with my phone’s camera capture one year of the Los Angeles sky from inside my vehicle. These images depict the space in front of, directly on, and beyond the glass. Hand airbrushing extends the sky around the frame, allowing it to at once blend in to the photograph and assert itself as a barrier. The multiple framing devices at play in these works simultaneously function as a compression and a decompression of three dimensional space, image space, and virtual space.”