Paul Salveson

In most homes, items sift together, so predictably posed that they seem to consciously orient themselves.  By creating tiny diversions in an object's prescribed path, I disrupt the normative psychological feedback loop existing between homes and their inhabitants.  Meticulous visual arrangements challenge people's automatic associations with domestic objects, imbuing their overlooked facets with an alien, yet vaguely familiar air.  

I utilize the scientific vernacular of photography as documentation--not to elucidate visual details, but to distort associations among objects and their typical environments.  While my subjects are born of everyday reality, I conceive of forms, engaging abstraction to build new systems of relational logic.  What results are declarations of the disconnect between functionality and formalist intuition.