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Range 220

Range 220 is a place where one can lose it’s self in a practice of combat. A place that resembles nothing completely real nor fictional.

A stage manufactured by the US Government to help train our military. Composed with more than 1500 buildings, a mosque, cemeteries with no context, burned down cars, middle eastern posters and banners on sides of buildings and market stalls with plastic fruits. All of these decorations are attempts to illustrate a broken down middle eastern town and really only leaving a complete impression of falsehood. But this place is far more than bad visual fundamentals. This place is not a real place with any true consequences for your actions. This is merely a massive playground for our military. An ongoing opera with small plays sprinkled over this playing field. Observed from cameras placed all across this stage so the rehearsal is shaped and rehearsed over and over again for that next insurgent in the middle east. The US was one of the first to create urban warfare ficities to train the military for effective combat and now many countries have fallen suit with the help of the United States for their own specific military efforts and future concerns.

Range 220 because it crosses a line of deception. I’m focused on exploring those complexities on what is real and what seems like a fantasy world. This place takes itself very seriously but I don’t see it that way.

Mirrors

Narcissus is known as the Greek mythology character who rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. In my opinion a reflection has the ability to pull all walks of life into it's light. In the right placement it can question it's own boundaries in logic and or create a metaphysical point of view. I built this mirror and stand so the reflection would be interpreted as an image on display. To be conscious of what I was photographing in front of me while keeping in mind the exact direction of the sun and how that will interpret with the reflection took some time to get used to. The relationship between two dictated a lot and I found minimal, bright environments that felt somewhat enchanting worked best for what I was drawn to. Each location was like a cover to a new book and the reflection was those short stories revealed inside the frame. The two form a relationship that feels purposeful. Some locations were pretty far off the road. I would visit a location and envision the shot then organize the mirror and aim it at what I had in mind and that's how most of the images were made. None of these images are photoshopped in anyway or manipulated. They are intended to be seen exactly how I saw it exactly.

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Narcissus is known as the Greek mythology character who rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. In my opinion a reflection has the ability to pull all walks of life into it's light. In the right placement it can question it's own boundaries in logic and or create a metaphysical point of view. I built this mirror and stand so the reflection would be interpreted as an image on display. To be conscious of what I was photographing in front of me while keeping in mind the exact direction of the sun and how that will interpret with the reflection took some time to get used to. The relationship between two dictated a lot and I found minimal, bright environments that felt somewhat enchanting worked best for what I was drawn to. Each location was like a cover to a new book and the reflection was those short stories revealed inside the frame. The two form a relationship that feels purposeful. Some locations were pretty far off the road. I would visit a location and envision the shot then organize the mirror and aim it at what I had in mind and that's how most of the images were made. None of these images are photoshopped in anyway or manipulated. They are intended to be seen exactly how I saw it exactly.

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