Flat Files
FLAT FILES
Series Statement
This series follows a simple rule: I can only use what’s in the drawer.
Inside the flat file is a shifting archive of transparencies printed with maps, overblown photos turned into just DPI, fragments from older work, test prints, castoffs. None of it was made for this. That’s the point.
I pull from this pile, build compositions in the drawer, and photograph them. There’s no gluing, no polishing. Just pressure, layering, light, and the moment it all clicks.
Flat Files is part constraint, part chaos. The process is the piece really - make fast, respond honestly, don’t fix. It’s a rule-based practice that constantly threatens to unravel. I like that tension.
This is work that lives in between digital and analog, past and present, memory and material. Nothing here is final, and that’s what makes it feel alive. ;)