REALITY TV is my response to a time of digital sensory overload. Full Project Statement HERE

 I began REALITY TV in 2008, a time when digital content and information was just beginning to be created and distributed in tsunami like waves. While this has only increased since that time, I had not yet become conditioned to its assaults. The volume of data I was exposed to daily had become unbearable. REALITY TV began as my response to this nerve wrecking time.


Focusing my attention on television broadcasts and its constant beam, I photographed the light being emitted as it fell upon the white walls of the room where it was being viewed. Each composite photograph represents a television program. The assembled images of saturated color vibrate against each other creating their own visual sensation. They form a strip of colored data resembling pixilated information; transforming the data it was created from.


In REALITY TV 2009, I assemble 12 selected images and arrange them to maintain the aspect ratio of a wide screen television. In REALITY TV 2010, I photograph the entire program and assemble each image in a platform that reflects the length of the broadcast.

TCC The Gospel Truth June 4 2010 (2010)
17” x 31” edition of 6
ABC America’s Got Talent June 20 2010 (2010)
17” x 64” edition of 6
INSP Kerry Shook Ministries Awakenings July 25 2010 (2010)
17” x 31” edition of 6
CBS President Obama Address to the Nation June 15 2010 (2010)
17” x 30” edition of 6
NBC Dateline Decision Point Interview with George w Bush November 8 2010 (2010)
17” x 62” edition of 6
MSNBC Countdown with Keith Obermann December 2 2010 (2010)
17” x 65” edition of 6
Fox News Glenn Beck November 30 2010 (2010)
17” x 65” edition of 6
GSN Family Feud December 20 2010 (2010)
17” x 30” edition of 6
ABC Dancing with the Stars October 4 2010 (2010)
17” x 102” edition of 6
CNN Larry King Live December 15 2010 (2010)
17” x 62” edition of 6
ABC The View November 12 2010 (2010)
17” x 65” edition of 6
The Biggest Loser October 12 2010 (2010)
17” x 102” edition of 6
Hallmark The Martha Stewart Show October 14 2010 (2010)
17” x 48” edition of 6
TBN Trinity Redemption with Ron Carpenter July 11 2010 (2010)
17” x 30” edition of 6
TLC What Not to Wear December 10 2010 (2010)
17” x 65” edition of 6
ABC FIFA World Cup United States vs England 1-1 June 12 2010 (2010)
17” x 78” edition of 6
Bravo Work of Art July 27 2010 (2010)
17” x 65” edition of 6
ABC Jeopardy! November 23 2010 (2010)
17” x 30” edition of 6