Rollback - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Watcher in Violet -Paint Saint Louis 2023
Before the Strike - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Residual Signal - Paint Saint Louis 2023
The Are Machine - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Split Signal - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Manufactured Citizen - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Learning the Shape of Care - Paint Saint Louis 2023
What Remains - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Color Holds the Line - Paint Saint Louis 2023
City Under Watch - Paint Saint Louis 2023
Time, Rewritten - Paint Saint Louis 2023
This body of work was photographed during the 2023 Paint St. Louis mural project and represents a more exploratory phase of engagement with the floodwall environment. The images reflect an initial impulse to capture breadth—variety of style, scale, and visual language—before the work began to narrow toward a more restrained and selective approach.
Rather than isolating individual murals as discrete subjects, these photographs emphasize saturation, gesture, and immediacy. Color is allowed to dominate. Figures appear more animated, graphic forms more assertive, and the framing more inclusive of surrounding visual noise. The result is a series that privileges energy and accumulation over compression.
What connects the work, even at this stage, is an emerging interest in how public imagery performs when removed from its original context. Murals designed for speed and spectacle are slowed down through photographic framing, inviting attention to texture, repetition, and adjacency. Moments of humor, tension, and symbolism surface not through narrative sequencing, but through visual contrast.
Seen alongside later work from 2024 and 2025, this series functions as a foundation rather than a conclusion. It documents the point at which observation gives way to intent—where saturation begins to be questioned, and where selection becomes as important as capture. The images remain vital not for their completeness, but for the clarity they bring to the evolution of the work that follows.
- Paint Saint Louis 2023
- Paint Saint Louis 2023
- Paint Saint Louis 2023
This work is part of an ongoing photographic study of the Paint Saint Louis mural project Years 2023, 2024, 2025
