Past Continuous Present


Time shifting images exploiting the ambiguities inherent in historicizing the legacy of documentary and representational forms are at the center of this photo work. Employing diverse material from the recent past such as Playboy interviews with the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and declassified School of the America’s psychological operations manuals to question the history of cultural consensus that grows around these subjects. This work exposes the anomalies that affect the materiality of a picture, document, or fact when transposed from its original historical context to the present time, and the relationship of textual and visual information to address broader critical questions.



Installation: Roots & Culture, Chicago, 2018