Consumers Distributors, 2018-2025. archival prints, frames, acrylic. 15x20

Scanned, digitally cleaned, iconoclastically altered pages from a specific issue of World Wide Distributors Catalog, a protozoic kind of physical Amazon or Alibaba vendor supplier. I am fascinated by the pleasure in the physical act of looking, perusing, shopping with the eyes-- this series is an attempt to preserve the “pleasure-to-look” while sublimating any specific object of desire. The images are cleaned of representation or iconography, and made pure.
The series is now being printed and placed in frames that are painted to extend the images outward and further obfuscate the line between photographic image and painting.