Working Process/Studio

My work is based on specific personal memories and is constructed solely from them.

For the photographic works, I begin by making rough sketches of places and things from my past that seem relevant to themes I am thinking about at a particular time. From these sketches, I make working drawings to solidify the dimensions of each item, and to get the correct feel of each piece. From these drawings I make schematic drawings that will be documented and then cut out for assembly. This is all done by hand.
After the schematics are cut out, they are folded and tabbed into their final 3 dimensional formats. Whenever possible these are cut out in one piece from a single sheet of paper. Since I do not use any kind of documented reference material, this often takes several tries to get everything right.

After all of the items and structures are built necessary for each image, I work through the view of the camera to assemble the scene. During this process, I begin arranging the lights to manipulate the desired atmosphere. All of the color in the images comes from the lights. Everything is built with white Bristol vellum paper.