D: My work lives in the haunted space between two forms of violence: the abstract, institutionalized threat emanating from the nuclear weapons’ research facility and the immediate, visceral trauma of homicides on the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I navigate this landscape directly, visiting murder sites that often exist in the shadow created by the Sandia Laboratory’s fenced boundary. Photographic witnessing is the core of my process, and it dictates where, what and how I approach a geographic location and its artistic presentation, from the chosen medium to its final form as a publication.

The choice of photo monotype collage is not incidental; it is the conceptual engine of the work. The medium is the message.

Collage is the action of designed proximity. The medium allows me to visually argue a connection that systems of power work hard to keep separate. It makes tangible the invisible shockwaves that travel from the covert labs down into the city's arteries, suggesting a shared pathology of violence.