alan jordan lew

Alan Jordan Lew was born in early February of 1977. Started as a classical music composer at 14 then when I turned 17, mixed media collage work came into my life. Reoccurring nightmares plagued me at the time about fear of the future, and the consequence of human burden - including my own actions. I…

At first I usually have no idea what the image will look like. Its a process that becomes easier as long as you start somewhere! I methodically cut small pieces of paper to reconstruct the image onto another natural pattern. It was a hypnotizing experience. For hours I would make patterns and cut th…

As if time was the only factor in my daily life, I try to record every hour of it by night. Obsessed with the natural shadows into the things I cannot see - the final result of the photo visibly explains these shapes of dark matter in a clear marriage of captured time within space. This not only dis…