Artist Statement Thompson is an imperfectionist. He cuts and punctures, stitches, and stains. He does to photographs what mankind is doing to the planet. Thompson’s practice has a punk edge. Destruction as creation with metaphoric aims. His markers of scruffy inland Southern California—palm trees, power lines—are intentionally generic: a place,...
Christina McFaul graduated from Brooks Institute of Design in 2001. Her art illuminates the interconnectedness between humans and nature, challenging the notion of separation.
PROJECT STATEMENT Midlfe Tableaux Midlife is traditionally a nexus for recalibration; parents reach an age of needing care, children become adults, and those of us in the middle assess and adapt. Midlife Tableaux is a manifestation of that reconsideration of self through examination of significant objects in my familial histories. ...
PROJECT STATEMENT The Ephemeral Archive Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman has famously written that we all die three deaths: when the body ceases to function, when the body is consigned to the grave, and “that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.” Bill...
PROJECT STATEMENT Love Letters to Life in the City My interest in the human condition and relentless curiosity for people and things has led me on many adventures exploring and documenting daily life on city streets. To quote Robert Frank, “I’m always looking outside, trying to look inside. Trying to...
PROJECT STATEMENT Silence Is. Unlike most chaotic and cacophonous childhoods, mine was spent in silence. Growing up with a deaf mother, I spent most of my youth not being heard. My project, Silence Is evokes my experience of her through self-portraits, family photographs and empty spaces. My mother, now 90,...
PROJECT STATEMENT Transcending the Temporal Exploring my connection with trees was an antidote for the loss of connection I felt with society during the pandemic and lockdown. Being in nature, amongst the trees, helped me transcend this temporal situation of suffering and death. The forest spoke to my soul of...
PROJECT STATEMENT Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West Fauxliage documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers in the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, our landscapes are now sown with a quirky mosaic of masquerading palms, evergreens,...
PROJECT STATEMENT Screen Time Cellphones are ubiquitous, and they have changed public spaces. As people turn away from each other and toward devices, phone interactions feel hidden and private; yet every online action is potentially public. We often share more about our private lives to strangers on social media than...
PROJECT STATEMENTS Generation 1.75 On the day I was born in India, my father flew to Queens, NY to finish his medical education. My mother followed three months later and I was left to be raised by my grandparents. As a young child I knew that my parents lived elsewhere,...