Selection from Images F22, #4, (2022), Digital Photograph (truck). 9 X 12.
Selection from Images Apr24, #10 (2023) Digital Photograph (barbed wire). 9 X 12.
@dudegoo | My photographic work focuses on the intersection between people and the built environment. The urban landscape around us was explicitly designed to uphold the patriarchy, and the desperate effect of that design can be felt in urban spaces. Physical space is segregated and delineated. The land is surrounded by fences and cut off with wire. There is no space left untouched, and yet these same spaces serve little to no purpose other than to keep those “less desirable” away from those who are. We don’t need to see a human being to know what kind of person belongs in any given space. An alcove that would protect one from the rain or sun is surrounded by a fence. A military-style truck is parked in an otherwise quiet warehouse district. The tentacles of patriarchy built our city for a certain kind of citizen, and it is up to us to notice the moments of control, where the powers that be signal to us what kind of person is entitled to any given public space.
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