There is a kind of loneliness that comes with living in an urban center that seems incongruous with the multitudes of people living in close proximity. It is that loneliness that drives me to explore the urban environment, particularly contemporary architecture. This fascination is tied to my roots as a sculptor. I have an appreciation for the structural elements, architecture as form, rather than its ornamentation, which suggest history and place. Globalization has led to the creation of a universal style of architecture and to the loss of local architectural identities.

Walking and photography provide me with a means to observe, record and contemplate the psychological impact of this ubiquitous style of buildings, a style that is both familiar and anonymous. While many photographers search for the unusual, the unique, I focus on architecture that is so common that it makes one place indistinguishable from another. As it is impossible to photograph the large scale, three-dimensionality of buildings in their entirely, I isolate and photograph fragments of the whole.

In the studio, my photographs provide the raw material that I use to piece the fragments back together. I am like an architect without a plan, improvising a cycle of construction and reconstruction. In trying to understand the experience of walking and living in a city, I move through a process of dismantling and then rebuilding my environment; the process is similar to research as I unpack my environment in order to better understand it.

 The final works appear angular and distorted, oscillating between the two dimensions of the photograph and the three dimensions of sculpture. Transforming the photograph into three dimensions returns a kind of materiality to the images, making them more tangible. The work allows me to present the built environment through my eyes by deconstructing it and then re-presenting it.