Statements

Captured in camera. Not set up. No Photoshop compositing. Basic photo editing only. The Statements series shows walls that I happened to come across as they were covering an exterior wall space or boarding up some kind of construction going on behind them. 

People independently and uninvitedly put up posters, tore down parts of previous posters, wrote on the walls, added paint, covered paint, or in some other way added to or subtracted from what had been there before. To me, the walls looked like abstract paintings or mixed media collages. I saw each of them as consecutive statements that built upon themselves and responded to each other to make works of art. 

These images present how I found them on that given day. The results are essentially mixed media collages that I captured as photographs, not to document them but to present what my eye saw as an abstract image on that wall.