Untitled Times (2016–2023)

 

For years I have been cutting into daily news and images from the New York Times, collaging a continuous scroll from physical fragments of the newspaper. Throughout this series, The New York Times—a "newspaper of record" for future historians—is intuitively reworked as both source material and readymade: a document whose claim to objectivity is itself the subject. Using photomontage to playfully redress the conventions of landscape and history painting, "Untitled Times" explores the associative threads of history that shape the landscape of the United States. The works chart a geography of dreamworlds, continually shaped and reconfigured by subjective and objective circumstances, conscious and unconscious forces. I think of this engagement with mediated history as a kind of "re-mediation"—employing intuition and chance to infiltrate the official visual record with the feeling and logic of dream-worlds.