My Favorite Shapes

This work deconstructs rooms into improbable structures that blur reality and illusion. Through playful, constructions, I challenge perception, creating subtle disorientation in space and scale. The uncanny emerges through, precise manipulation of space.

In this series,“My Favorite Shapes,” I have been deconstructing the concept of the room, complicating familiar spaces into improbable, disorienting structures. These images are born out of a playful process—constructed without rigid plans, driven by an intent to disrupt our understanding of space. The goal is to transport the viewer into a universe where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, where the familiar warps into something uncanny.

The experience of these photographs is meant to provoke a shift in perception. At first glance, the audience may interpret the subject as an actual photographed place. But soon, they begin to question whether they are looking at a real environment or a carefully constructed scale model. This ambiguity blurs the line between reality and artifice, encouraging viewers to question their assumptions about place, memory, and the limits of perception.

As complex abstractions overlap in these images, they foster a disorienting experience that challenges the viewer's sense of reality. The photograph becomes the perfect medium for this exploration,  for its singular capacity for both depiction and deception. If you can’t trust your own eyes, then you can’t trust your own definition of place. And where are you supposed to exist at the plane of the image if all that grounds you is slowly dissolving away?

The pursuit of the uncanny is central to my process. I aim to highlight the absurdities of representation. By building and photographing models, this further creates the disorientation of space, time and scale, to create a particular kind of illusion. Not the big flashy kind, where an elephant disappears right before your eyes, but the subtlety of the card-counter, the sleight of hand, and unnoticeable graceful dance of the pickpocket. I am not a wizard, there is no real magic here. The best tricks are the ones we don’t even see.