Deep Space collages
deep space four, 2024
Archival pigment print
27x36 in (68.6x91.5cm)
Edition of 3+2AP | $1200 | inquire
deep space five, 2024
Archival pigment print
27x36 in (68.6x91.5 cm)
Edition of 3+2AP | $1200 | inquire
Arguably one should be attracted to utopian ideas in architecture and repelled by their dystopian counterparts - designs propelled by utopian ideals that actually get built but fail to deliver a better living experience.
I personally feel almost the opposite. Utopian visions - ostensibly something to aspire to - unsettle me, whereas I feel strangely attracted to urban dystopia.
This body of work is in part influenced by the aesthetic of science fiction films. Not their predictable wars between aliens, robots and humans, but the worlds in which those stories take place. I imagine arriving on set long after the last battle has been fought.
These worlds, though set in the distant future, are governed by emotions rooted very much in the presence: loneliness and abandonment. Human dwellings cling like barnacles onto giant fungi, while fragments of our own waste become part of the landscape.
The collages combine photographs made in places I have lived: buildings in Kinshasa, DR Congo; fungi found in the woods near my parents' home in Germany, and plastic waste from everyday use collected in New York. Removed from their original surroundings and brought together, these disparate elements lose their familiar scale and meaning. Organic forms become immense, almost planetary, while architecture appears fragile - little more than an attachment to something larger than itself.
What remains is a quiet universe in which life, not without beauty, continues in the form of fungi coexisting with the remnants of our civilization.
deep space six, 2024
Archival pigment print
27x36 in (68.6x91.5 cm)
Edition of 3+2AP | $1200 | inquire
deep space seven, 2024
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta, 100% cotton (acid- and lignin-free)
27x36 in (68.6x91.5 cm)
Edition of 3+2AP | $1200 | inquire
deep space orange, 2024
Archival pigment print
18x24 in (46x61cm)
Edition of 3+2AP | $1050 | inquire
Additional works from this series at lower price points can be found on my small works collection.