Endless Scroll  is a photographic installation piece that serves as a love letter to phone photographs and a meditation on my (yours, ours) increasingly short attention span.

More and more I find my phone to be an extension of myself, the source of all my contact with the outside world, and the source of all my anxieties. Back in 2010, when I got my first iPhone, I couldn’t have imagined that feeling.

“The best camera is the one you have with you.” And as a young person deciding between bringing my expensive DSLR and my heavy film camera, at least I always had my phone. 

Since then I’ve taken some of my favorite images on phones, but I can’t help but stigmatize them. How could they be as good as the photos I take on film? That I shoot on expensive gear with superior glass?

Can something still be good if it was too easy to get?

Endless Scroll  is 25 iPhone 4’s playing slideshows of 95 phone photos taken between 2017-2025. They are mounted and housed on a maple display box made by the artist. 22x36x8”

Shrine to a Broken Phone  is an interactive photographic installation commenting on our anthropomorphic relationships to our phones and the value we place on experiences and objects online versus IRL.

I broke this phone in 2018, when I dropped it in a parking lot after going caseless for less than 24 hours. The phone before that, I lost in the ocean.

This shrine is an ode to all the broken and lost phones. 

It is also a query to the viewer. 

This shrine is ultimately a still life, which I photographed with my gear and lighting, printed on a professional printer and framed for display. 

I invite the viewer to take their own photograph of the still life, with their phone camera. I’ve even set up a guide to ensure the exact composition as my own. Does this degrade any perceived exclusivity of the work? 

Will they ever look back at that image again? Or will it become just another photo on a camera roll full of thousands of others?

Shrine to a Broken Phone  is a shrine containing: a broken phone, paper mache arm, sweater, hand mirror, assorted printed photographs; framed and unframed, LCD screen showcasing an old text, iPod, dental model, miracle fish, votive candles, googly eyes, power cords and bottled wired headphones. A framed still life of the shrine accompanies it, along with a guide for photographing the installation via phone camera. 3x5x8’

The feeling of driving down the highway, sleeping with your eyes open.

I drove past this billboard on 675 one day and jolted awake. For 56 days, I attempted to highlight the space to give myself some peace and hopefully recreate my experience for others.

This project attempts to question the proliferation of ads on American highways. Unable to find an alternative, it serves as a meditation on the reality.

Thank you to Wat Lao Buddha Phothisaram in Conley, GA.

June 2 - July 27, 2020

Framed photographs, Viewmaster reels containing sets of stereoscopic images, and digital pigment printed overhead projector transparencies.

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 "Austin, Kasey and Jenna want to show you something."

A group exhibition at 404 West Broughton Gallery, Savannah, GA. June 1 - 5, 2017