Extraneousness documents the beauty of details that are lost in a person’s everyday view of the world and how these come together to form painting-like abstractions. The images hone in on the subject, focusing on extraneous visual information in the interactions between light, line, color, and water. When observed and photographed, these interactions provide an entirely new view of surroundings, revealing abstraction through framing, cropping, and reflection that skew perceptions.

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​Influenced by photographers like Wolfgang Tillmans and Aaron Siskind, as well as abstract expressionist painters of the 1940s such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, who focused on interactions of light, color, and form to capture abstraction, Extraneousness explores the intersection of two mediums, creating photograph abstractions that react as a painting or drawing.

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Extraneousness allows a person to view environments in a limited way, forcing them to take a deeper look and have a greater understanding of a subject. It encourages shifting perspectives from a wide-angle view of the world to focusing on the basic, natural qualities of light, color, and form. From the dissection of subjects and environments, unlocking a new and different perspective of existing surroundings, one discovers an entirely new world where nothing is what it seems.