Redacted Topographies is a series of abstract collages made using photographs to construct compositions centered on memory, loss, struggle and community.

My lens based work of the past 20 years revolves around documenting the urban landscape and neighborhoods of Los Angeles, driven by an innate drive to authentically portray the ways the city has been transformed over the past few decades.

Over the past five years, I moved away from the character based ink illustrations that dominated my previous work and began using abstract, shape-based drawings as a framework to present my photography in a new way.

Acting as both the collage artist and the photographer facilitated a deeper, tactile connection to my archive, enabling the exploration of specific personal and social themes revolving around the physical structure of the spaces I photograph.

What initially began as a series of creative experiments has become the defining element of my artistic practice, unifying the work I make across mediums into singular expression. The finished compositions are called surveys, firmly planting the completed pieces in the recording and contextualization of life in Los Angeles.

The deconstructed photographs explore the complex network of people, lost structures, and communities lost to gentrification, displacement, and the passage of time.

Prologue (Surveys 001-012)