Over the past several years, I have made photographic series on several themes: highway interchanges and contemporary buildings, often halfconstructed; ferns in a tropical plant conservatory; the taping of a public access news/call-in show; people and objects hovering in a decontextualized space; and, most recently, the printing of newspapers. Each project began as a discrete inquiry, a pretext for making some pictures. Still, certain conceptual and formal commonalities have emerged.

Probably all photographs are history. My photographs are a history of becoming. My fixations are dynamic spaces and unfolding processes: construction, growth and succession. My subjects move onward, upward, outward and ahead. They are perpetually becoming, always on the verge but never quite there.

I began shooting photographs at the Austin American Statesman’s printing press facility in November 2005 and am still going back on a regular basis. The pressroom is a good match for my shooting style. Order, chaos and bright color commingle, and the pace of activity is somehow both hectic and relaxed. I can zero in on the actual printed news, which is small and regenerates day-to-day; or I can focus on the presses, which are massive and immobile, seemingly static even while running. Accidental spilled and splattered inks, for example, are another pleasure. I also really like the paper itself, before anything is printed on it.

Above all, these pictures are about printing. Newspapers are lithographs; my pictures are inkjet prints made from scans of large-format analog negatives. The work translates one mode of printing into another.