Hyperscape


2008 — Photography

32"x44" c-prints

Hyperscape investigates the instability of the object within photographic representation, focusing on the threshold at which material things begin to dissolve into perceptual information. Through a process of repeated photographic capture and layered compositing, the work tests whether “object-ness” can be disrupted not through removal, but through excess—through the accumulation of viewpoints that ultimately exceed the coherence of a single form.

Each image is constructed from multiple exposures of the same subject, with subtle shifts in camera position generating a field of slight variations. When combined through stacking and transparency, these differences accumulate into a softening of edges and a gradual erosion of structural legibility. What remains is not the object as such, but a residual field of chromatic and spatial suggestion—an image that hovers between recognition and abstraction.

This dissolution is further reinforced through the deliberate calibration of background and subject, in which surrounding tones echo and absorb the dominant chromatic register of the object itself. Rather than presenting figure and ground as distinct, the work allows them to collapse into a continuous visual field, destabilizing the boundary that typically secures objects as discrete entities within photographic space.

In this sense, Hyperscape does not document objects so much as it produces conditions under which objecthood becomes uncertain. The photograph ceases to function as a window onto a stable referent and instead becomes a site of perceptual negotiation, where form is no longer anchored by edges but distributed across layers of repetition and interference.

The resulting images occupy a space between index and afterimage, suggesting a kind of visual environment in which material specificity is continually deferred. What emerges is a constructed “hyper-reality” not defined by heightened clarity, but by the progressive withdrawal of definition itself—a space where objects persist only as gradients of presence, rather than as bounded forms.

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“The object becomes virtual, the image actual.”

-Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense

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