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The Briefing

For three years starting on March 14, 2020, the NPR news was the impetus for the creation of daily video/still images. A watershed moment in political absurdity occurred on April, 23, 2020 when a sitting president suggested a cure for a global pandemic. This satirical series of video/still diptychs projects a pestilent free, albeit bleached life. Ironically, Quarantine used many of the same washed-out characters as in Age-Specific, although with different objectives.  The pouring of the bleach symbolism in Age-Specific was used to show the diminishing role of a generation by way of age discrimination.

March 14, 2020

Channel Surfing

White Noise

Social Behavior

I can not breath

Breath of Fresh Air

The original premise for Quarantine was conceived during the early months of 2020 home confinement: a series of short visual narratives pairing still and motion photographs of simultaneous settings. What began as a way to meaningfully occupy time during isolation evolved into a sustained political statement.

From that period of confinement emerged two chapters — The Briefing and Recipes for Disaster. For nearly a year, daily life narrowed to a dual focus: the relentless theater of politics and the intimate rituals of the kitchen. Public anxiety and sustenance became the framework of each day.

In early 2021, Lynn and I set out on a cross-country journey, leaving the confines of home to survey a nation visibly strained by political division while also seeking the restorative vastness of the American West. These travels gave rise to the third chapter, Continental Divide. The project continued to unfold during a second cross-country expedition in 2022, extending both its geographic and conceptual scope.