snafu is my long look at everyday life in America. Realized through snafu — sixty-six books & field guide, it gathers fragments of the ordinary and the absurd, tracing the shifting texture of daily existence across time and place. Grounded in the American social-documentary tradition yet reaching toward a Whitman-esque embrace of contradiction, I accept fragmentation as a form of wholeness — a mirror to the American condition itself. Like Leaves of Grass, it evolves through time, gathering multitudes: clarity and confusion, humor and grief, beauty and ruin.
Photographs, in rhythm, become a visual poem — a handmade book. snafu becomes both object and document, evolving through time and form — creating a living archive and an ongoing experiment in photographic form.
snafu — debris field extends the archive through unbound photographs, archival enclosures, and field indexes. The work shifts from the fixed sequence of the bound book toward dispersed structures organized through retrieval, handling, and reassembly.
snafu is about what happens when things don’t line up — when the story collapses and something real starts to show through. It’s my record of looking, and of being looked back at by the world.
snafu can be seen here.
