virocode

I’ll be at WNYBAC Saturday 12/13 for their Holiday Marketplace. Stop by to see my prints and some of the other things I’ve been making. I’ll be in the basement with my work near the presses. Great chance to buy a virocode print and one of my new experiments in ceramics.

Available on our website
Link in bio

http://www.virocode.com/virocodeshop

A Correspondent’s Pad, new work from my residency at WNYBAC.

These letterpress-printed notepads are working tools embedded with fragments of distant landscapes. They emerged from entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Egypt, and Iceland. Through the slow pressure of hand-printing, photographic fragments transfer into tactile relief, impressions and exchanges of energy from one surface to another. The images invite multiple readings: rock formations become circuits, ice fields and sand dunes mirror industrial grids, the organic and technological fold into each other. Communication infrastructures and geological forms are brought side by side through a vintage printing technique. Technologies separated by centuries collapse into a single material encounter. The printing press, like the cell tower, is infrastructure rendered invisible through ubiquity, becoming landscape itself.These pads invite correspondence in all its senses: as communication, as relationship, as formal echo between phenomena sensing each other across space and time. The notepad is a protagonist, a correspondent mediating between writer and world, between memory (photographic) and speculation (the blank page). These are tools for thinking-with rather than about, devices for recording vibrations between things. Each printed image sits adjacent to blank space, inviting you to inscribe your own marks and thoughts alongside images already dense with signals.

Available at WNYBAC

I am curating a collection of my images for a small run of letterpress prints using the historic Vandercook presses at WNYBAC. These artworks mediate relationships I made as a correspondent between distant places and things that matter there. The work will be available as pads that leave space for ideas, notes, drawings, and future correspondence. These are halftones from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iceland.

I will be at WNYBAC until December, more to come!

Sharing work from Saudi Arabia with curators from New York. Looking forward to more opportunities to tell these stories.


Thanks for the photographs Chris.

Material Memory, now itness
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mineral print
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pigment

July, 2025
Val Taleggio, Italy

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Material Memory, now itness

mineral print
transition
exposure in situ
magnification

July, 2025
Val Taleggio, Italy


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Material Memory, now itness

mineral print
transition
exposure in situ

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find
magnification

July, 2025
Val Taleggio, Italy

Delighted and honored to be a Kingdom Photography Award winner and have photographs from ‘blue itness, thy nature’ included in Hay Ainek - In a New Light, organized by The Ministry of Culture Visual Arts Commission. The exhibition is at Hayy Jameel - Jeddah from April 30 - May 25, 2025.

blue itness, thy nature
Here, itness in a landscape clarified by intense natural light, black scree and white sand dunes play in stark contrast to clear blue sky. Orange glowing horizons sun-soaked with saturated sunsets over the Red Sea and wind sculpted textures cover remnants of sea and volcanoes. The rivers are long gone here and what remains are wadis, patterns, petroglyphs, camels, acacia, and artifacts of Nabataean culture, Bedouin, traders, and travelers.
Power lines and cellphone towers weave a new fabric of connectivity where hospitality and culture bloom with new perspectives and re-shaped horizons.