STATEMENT:

November 10, 2020. Six am.  One week after the presidential election and there is still chaos created by the sitting president who desperately tries to alter reality. I open the refrigerator and see some kale I had forgotten to cook.  It was broken. I was broken. I was stressed.  I was depleted.  The President is insisting he won the election.  This after all his lies, contradictions, and disruptive behavior during the past 9 months during the Covid pandemic.  I am dumbfounded. Not having the words to describe my state of mind, I photograph the kale, which, it seems to me, symbolizes not only my thoughts and feelings but also the state of the Union.

The images fascinated me.  I found that arranging the  kale and other decaying vegetables on solid color backgrounds gave me a way to see slow erosion in action. The result was oxymoronic: beautiful and ugly.  An edgy irony. I continued making these pictures, documenting my condition and that of the nation.

Enervate, then, is my response to the politics of that time.  With the current mean-spirited and vindictive US government administration, Enervate is, painfully, once again relevant.