• Large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Solid and Light (LM 1), 2023–2026.
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP

  • Detail of large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Solid and Light (LM 1), 2023–2026 [Detail]
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP

  • Detail of large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Solid and Light (LM 1), 2023–2026 [Detail]
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP

  • Detail of large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Solid and Light (LM 1), 2023–2026 [Detail]
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP

  • Large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Formless (LM 2), 2023–2026
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP.

  • Detail of large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Formless (LM 2), 2023–2026 [Detail]
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP.

  • Detail of large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Formless (LM 2), 2023–2026 [Detail]
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP

  • Detail of large-scale still life photograph of petroleum-based substance, exploring photography as a petrotechnology and its material ties to fossil fuels.

    Formless (LM 2), 2023–2026 [Detail]
    Chromogenic Print, 70 × 84 in.
    Edition of 3, 2 AP

Liquid Modernity is a series of large-scale still lifes centered on petroleum, exploring the complex relationship between post-natural materials, their pervasive presence, and their seductive allure. Each “field” is a composite of up to fifty individual images of hydrotreated heavy petroleum paraffinic distillates. The series is self-reflexive, tracing photography’s origins to Niépce’s use of bitumen of Judea—a petroleum-based material. Inquire