Series | Any City, AMERICA

Any City, AMERICA

Through the placement of portable objects in urban spaces, my work addresses the social process of gentrification. It is a catalyst in the discussion on the implication of change in an existing context through urban renewal or gentrification. I simulate this process by taking my own ambiguous yet familiar portable objects –miniature houses that serve as architectural prototypes-- and placing them in urban spaces.  Painted white, the houses are symbolic, metaphoric, allegorical, evocative and ambiguous. Their juxtaposition in the context of apparent urban renewal is an uncanny co-existence of the old and new, certainty and uncertainty, the past, the present, or the unknown. Photographing this juxtaposition in context gives the portable object equivalence to its surrounding in both scale and effect. In reality, however, small in scale and ambiguous, the object becomes a signifier for change. 

1537 Camden Road

Series| Any City, AMERICA

Installation, photography

18x24 inches

2013

Available 

All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 

Chadwick

Series| Any City, AMERICA

Installation, photography

18x24 inches

2013

Available 

All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 

609 & 613 Cherry Street 

Series| Any City, AMERICA

Installation, photography

18x24 inches

2013

Available 

All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 

Cherry

Series| Any City, AMERICA

Installation, photography

18x24 inches

2013

Available 

All artwork is copyrighted by the artist 

1328 West 6th Street

Series| Any City, AMERICA

Installation, photography

18x24 inches

2013

Available 

All artwork is copyrighted by the artist