Warhead
The photographs from Warhead explores the sublime spectacle of the military machine. Omnipresent in modern times, weapons systems capture the attention of our imagination even though they are hidden or tucked away. Missiles decisively earn their sinister reputations. Documented into their depiction are the tragic accounts of the modern human experience. Encountering their mass, or their sleek and confident design triggers differing feelings of awe and disgust. These are the machines that have delivered messages of death, of who makes the rules, of how future alignments will hold.
These images depict the weightlessness and the weightiness of both the physical and psychological aspects of the missiles. The burdens of their capabilities are the very reasons certain nations sleep without much worry for their own personal safety. A zero-sum omen set in a sky-scape, Warhead undermines the illusionary comfort sequestered in carbon fiber and alchemy.
18 photographs 42 inches (h) x 28 inches (w) printed on Harman Gloss Fiber. 2009.
Payload, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Close Support, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Intercontinental, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Workhorse of the Upper, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Air to Air, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
In All Weather, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Next Generation, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Surface to Surface, 42 in x 28 in, 2009
Probe, 42 in x 28 in, 2009