Untitled Times  2016–2023

 

For seven years I cut into the daily news and images of The New York Times, collaging the physical fragments into a single continuous scroll, 252 inches long. The Times is a "newspaper of record," kept for future historians. Here it becomes both source material and readymade: a document whose claim to objectivity is itself the subject.

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Using photomontage to playfully redress the conventions of landscape and history painting, the scroll follows the associative threads of history that run through the United States. It charts a geography of dreamworlds, continually reconfigured by conscious and unconscious forces. I think of this as re-mediation: using intuition and chance to infiltrate the official visual record with the feeling and logic of dreams.

 

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Exhibited: At the Edge, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, 2026.

See also: Ghosts in, where sections of the scroll are translated into paintings.