"most of my current work is based upon miscommunications, failures of communication and gaps in communication. any conflict between people is always a linguistic entanglement and I work with versions of these dialoguesand problematize them further. the images of riots, wars, uprisings and clashes found in my work are approached as instances of groups of people for whom a failure of language has created a crisis. these crises are their own form of communication and are as inadequate as any linguistic formulation. in a way, the crisis is a signifier or a representation of the underlying disagreement. in that sense the set of ideas is absent from the action, as any representation of a thing or idea implies its absence. distancing us further from the ideas are the documentation, the discussion, the historicization and the mythologization of the crises. the possibility for any real understanding of the events is extremely faint. every message is perverted from its inception in language and gains more distortion through each iteration and reproduction. in their provisional relationship to interpretation, the riots and wars and monuments and ruins depicted in my pictures and texts have a bracketing relationship with art practice and its interpretation, and in fact with the entire ecosystem of artistic endeavor. in ‘spurs: nietzsche’s style,’ jacques derrida investigates a fragment found in nietzsche’s notes that states: “i have forgotten my umbrella.” by devoting an entire text to a phrase that may have been of no real significance to Nietzsche’s body of writing, derrida canonizes that scrap of writing, reifies it, introduces it as something rather than nothing. in a way, my current works mirror that practice;by bringing attention to the idea of failures and miscommunications, i try to make of them a presence and suggest the infinite array of similar miscommunications, small and large, that make up our social and political reality. my works look at the massive absence of an idea in its representation and try to make something out of nothing,but nothing is almost always stronger than something." DOWNLOAD PDF