I call my work Marktitious Imagery. It is an examination into the reassignment of marks found in a human-made landscape. Everyone leaves marks, both physically and emotionally. The ones that interest me the most are overlooked marks: a random strip of duct tape, a buffed out graffiti tag or a crack in an unused public square. None of these marks would be there unless someone made the landscape for them to inhabit. I document these urban landscapes. I mix media and marks. I see stories in these marks. Sometimes I write these stories down. Sometimes I layer these marks. Sometimes I create the marks that go onto my photographs. Layers fascinate me. The build-up and juxtaposition of information creates texture, depth and inter-connectivity. I like to confuse the semiotics of the marks. The signifier does not necessarily define the signified. Fact and fiction merge. It is mechanical and digital. It is a transformation of social convention through documentation and manipulation, referencing new media’s theory of appropriation, deconstruction and reconstruction – sample, photograph, re-mix,layer, sample, and re-mix again.

It just depends on the marks.