The Office

The Office is a series of photographs that were made between 2006 and 2009. This project is a visual investigation of a rapidly changing economic landscape, shifting attitudes towards the work place and ultimately the relationship between architecture and the personalities that occupy it. I feel that these spaces exhibit the spatial system of the Jeffersonian grid. While this grid is efficient for movement, it does not permit much personality to enter a given space. I desire to find situations in which human personality compete with the structure of the space or perhaps even detect a subtle human achievement.  This evidence of human presence might be a smudge on the wall left by a chair’s rubbing against it for years, a slightly offset stack of books and papers, the striking interplay between crisp day light and buzzing florescent lights, or a wilted plant. Along with these faint accomplishments over the gridded form, the camera is focused toward a stark emptiness. The desolate compositions and subject matter of moving boxes and empty binders suggest the migration and moving on of both business and the workers.