My work attempts to play on these feelings of instability.  The subjects that I use—some friends, some strangers—are placed into often awkward, bizarre set pieces, and coerced into visually compelling poses. Various websites (craigslist, etc.) became a way of enlisting others into my shoots. I use the photography medium as a way of documenting the experience of these performance pieces. An example of this would be smearing chocolate syrup all over a stranger’s legs and asking him to climb into a dryer, they might be completely covered with glitter or have their head stuffed in an uncomfortable place.

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