All of the images in this series depict surfaces exactly as they were found. Many of them are visually beautiful; it’s easy to find classical forms and allusions in them, even if accidental. Many are funny, intentionally sometimes, sometimes not. Some are surprisingly poignent. Many more are just mysteries showing too few clues to fully solve.

Examined closely, many of these images read like on-line threads. They start from a single element with a clear initial purpose: promoting a band, tagging a place, searching for a killer. But as they become built up over time, with additionas and deletions that obscure whatever started it all, the spaces congeals into at once a fractal of random-seeming nonsense and soemthing we seem naturally to try hard to imbue with meaning. Each is a history, and each cntribution meant something to someone at that place, at some time.

There is something universal about these stories. They crop up here in English, Czech, Spanish, Mandarin, more. And there's no evidence of local custom -- the stories in New York look just like those in Hong Kong, which in turn look just like those in Barcelona. There's a visual language here, some imperative, that is fundamentally human. In context, they appear very much of their place. Out of context and in combination, the literal aspects of these images blur into a single emotional vocabulary.

The complete set of 57 images from Constructed Surfaces have been collected into a two-volume limited edition book.