Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an exploration of the idea that creation and destruction are the same thing. Riots broke out in my neighborhood in Anaheim, California in 2012. My immediate reaction to this was climbing atop my landlord's roof without asking and recording the unfolding events with time-lapse photography. The news agencies I contacted had no idea what to do with the resulting footage of riots in fast-forward, which was okay with me because I had been thinking about recontextualizing news as art for some time. After that, I got the bug. I chased down wildfires, walked down storm drains on the L.A. River, and found abandoned houses where I could set up elaborate optical illusion paintings, which I thought of as an intimation of things we can't physically detect, a way to get an ever so slight edge on the unknowable.
The images in this gallery are selected from time-lapse photography ‘scenes’ and are available as unique limited prints.
