PHOTO_COLLECTION
I make formal images with a consumer digital camera and print them at a large scale. It makes me feel like I am pushing against the heavy weight of photography as a traditional medium, because I am somehow suggesting that these images are comparable to paintings. When they are blown up in scale, their perceived "low" quality produces something that I think is rather beautiful, gestural, painterly and difficult to control. Here I am straying toward an "art about art" conversation, but feel that I am wandering through the history of image-making itself. We know how painting responded to the photograph, but how is photography responding to the digital image?