Ruination
Ruination explores archetypal roles played throughout history through the lens of community and place. My photographic work is an ongoing project involving visual research on Classical and Renaissance architecture in Europe and structures influenced by their design in the New World.
Ruination looks at architecture to study the contrast between classical ideals (logic, reason, democracy) influencing structures of antiquity and those of the modern-day New World, with an interest in what buildings say about the culture that creates them. My photographs are present day documents of past history and its contemporary legacy.
I record the way cities build and adapt to structures over time as the demands of their inhabitants evolve and change. In the summer of 2020, new ruins were created blocks from my Minneapolis home during the Lake Street Uprising, providing an unfortunate yet relevant circumstance under which to continue the project.
