Daily Bread

It is at once both an outstanding ability of the human mind and a severe limitation that we project the familiar onto the unknown to imagine what we do not know. While our technology can overcome the limits of our perception, these results must be interpreted. The known is necessarily the language used to interpret the raw results of perception. In the series Daily Bread, the unknown is literally made from the known. The majestic is created from the utterly ordinary. Daily Bread catalogs the molding of bread in sequential photographs as it changes from food into a host for intricate colonies of fungus. This visceral process transforms the bread into unfamiliar yet spectacular terrain over the course of several months. Then, the blocks of pixels of these photographs are broken up often into as many as 2,000 separate squares and rearranged and composited into the form of a celestial object. Images of changing microscopic life become the raw material to construct icons of imperceptible time and immensity. The results are drawings, representations created by decisions made based on tonal values. Daily Bread delights in the exquisite capability of the human mind to imagine the cosmos with nothing more than moldy bread.