I take two seemingly disparate types of pictures: color images of my surroundings and black-and-white images of window screens. I photograph my neighborhood, a middle class suburban environment with woods and the natural world woven throughout it. While I live among these houses, they fill me with a sense of alienation and frustration. As I wander this space, I search for the moment when it is transformed into something more beautiful and richer than it first appears. I then combine these photographs with the screen images.

The screens are based on neuroscientist Heinrich Kluver’s ‘form constants’, or patterns that one sees while hallucinating. They create a matrix when placed in the suburban landscape, conjuring the mechanisms of vision and denoting the existence of an underlying structure. I am interested in how screens both admit and deny matter and how, by pushing this even further through digital manipulation, I can use them to alter space and create a new, unsettling environment where barriers begin to break down.