DECOmpensation, 2009/2014
Handmade Ilfochrome print on Dibond with laminate (collaged from original photographic source material, transferred to 8×10 film)
32.5 × 48 in (82.6 × 121.9 cm)
Edition of 4 + 1 AP
DECOmpensation, 2009/2014, surveys lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge at the height of the Great Recession. The digitally mirrored composition led to the chance emergence of a menacing, technological being—an abstracted, architectural entity that channels the inhuman scale and opaque power of global finance. Referencing Art Deco grandeur while hinting at collapse, the image becomes a portrait of a system at a precarious time. Printed by hand from 8×10 film, no two prints are the same.