Seascapes 
(After Sugimoto) 


This conceptual photography series is an ongoing voyage into imaginary and simulated images of water and air made in China on vinyl, as backdrops for studio (or vernacular) photography. Mounted on my studio wall in Brooklyn and shot on film in a 4x5 large format camera in natural light, following the photographic approach of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s series of Seascapes.

Yet, unlike the mystery in Sugimoto’s visual meditations, here the folds in the pixelated vinyl or the uneven studio window light, all reveal themselves to the camera, creating metadrama within the image, disrupting it’s own existence as a simulacrum.