How we work

We work like squirrels, accumulating photos of the material debris of industrial consumerism wherever we go, and using them later. We either photograph on site or build assemblages and decors out of found objects in our studio for the purpose of photographing them. 

We approach mundane objects and spaces with curiosity, wonder, and playfulness, like cats discovering a sofa. Play—the nearly magical, childlike ability to engage in sense-making without the weight of logic—is the cornerstone of our duo collaboration. It is how we transfigure banality into poetry, with photography as the core medium of a richly layered mixed-media visual language that explores the confines of narrativity and materiality.

Everything we make is done by both of us together. Either of us can take the initiative and is free to change what the other has done. This collaborative and iterative process is not smooth, since it always means processing images with two brains, effectively making our work an endless attempt to focus the object with impossible optical constraints. In that respect, our photography might also be a long, drawn-out autobiographical selfie of the inexhaustible depth and complexity of the relationship between a parent and an adoptive child who are also an artist duo. We have come to accept that this iterative tension is not meant to be resolved. It is generative and we embrace the way it defines our work as a duo.