Domestic Weather Patterns “Domestic Weather Patterns” is an ongoing series that deals with the familiar. The series begins with photographs of my own home and neighborhood, yet this space is part of a larger whole. I use collage to bring in elements exterior to the confines of the photograph and integrate them as seamlessly as possible. Doing so serves as a reminder that the places in the photographs are an integral part of this larger whole, that the two can never be separated. I collage three different elements into each image: clouds, foreground landscape elements (such as mountains or trees), and star maps. These elements represent a larger space than that of the photograph and are arranged so that they relate to each other in scale. The result is two intersecting spatial planes- that of the photograph, and that of the collaged elements. These two planes are woven together into a single whole. The work is intended to place the landscape in a larger context, a context that contains not only political, spiritual, and cultural narratives, but also the air contained within the scene, the weather and light that give each photograph a unique place in time, and the planets, stars and solar systems hidden from sight yet still present behind every sky. Each place represented by the photographs is part of something much larger than itself. |