Urban Transects

As an ecologist and artist, I combine scientific sampling methods with photography to challenge the objectiveness of scientific data. I take these images along walking transects through urban areas and combine them into triptychs. Each set includes photographs taken at different times and places, thus creating a dataframe filtered through my own interpretation. 

Some sets involve logical visual progressions across the triad, like a photographic comic strip. Many explore the relationship between two- and three-dimensional space. The collective whole serves as a color palette and shape museum for the region; as I take the vast majority of these photos in the metropolitan area in which I live, they come together to form an abstract representation of the visual mood of the city.

As a genderqueer person, I also use much of my art practice to immerse myself in an urban environment that may not always be safe for me. These Urban Transects have involved many hours exploring cities at a ground level; the explorations thus become parts of the works themselves, in which I examine the city in detail while challenging my subjective feelings (and sometimes objective reality) of security.