Digital collage of details from mixed media works using ink, dust and glue on tiny, hand-abraded nineteenth century photographs.
In Walter Benjamin's Arcades Projects, he wrote of nineteenth century Paris, with its passageways, vaulted ceilings, arches, catacombs and holes--old and new jumbled together. When urban renewal swept in, that lovable hodgepodge was replaced with wide avenues and uniformity, erasing the city's history. He saw this cleansing as the embodiment of capitalism—where products are endlessly compared, consumed and replaced, human lives are drained of meaning, and time is emptied out.
