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Ancillary Returns

On the permanent recording of nothing: a "nothing-in-particular" that once photographed becomes a "something photographically peculiar."


As with all photographs these are composed as equations of light and form, meaningless reflections, long and short shadows, reduced replicas that also act as a sort of record or evidence of a world out there, which by interpretation and translation, suggests much more than our recording instruments—our eyes and cameras—have been able to represent. In the hierarchy of content these photographs embody a minor narrative, the sort of things—not quite subjects— that have been consigned to being less than unimportant. These are not Portraits nor Landscapes not even pure formal studies; they are collections of those invisible things that only matter because the act of noticing singles them out momentarily.