About Jon

I’m a photographer who makes stories from fragments. My work examines how we construct meaning from incomplete information—whether pairing unrelated images, documenting urban decay, or amplifying pure randomness—and how those constructions reveal our compulsion to find patterns in chaos.

Dip|Tychs pairs photographs from institutional contexts—museums, commercial signage, public architecture—to generate unexpected relationships through juxtaposition. Titles function as puns or cultural references that reframe what’s visible without dictating interpretation, exploiting how framing and naming shape perception.

Noise photographs television static, zooming into analog interference until compositions emerge. Random titles generated by algorithm are paired with images through subjective association, then critiqued by AI with no additional context—creating a closed loop of projection where human and machine both manufacture meaning from pure randomness.

24-Hour Flu documents a 2012 durational performance: 288 images posted to social media every five minutes for 24 hours, pulled randomly from my camera roll and captioned with found tweets and platform syntax. The work performs the compulsive production social media demands, exposing the physical toll of digital productivity and the absurdity of staying relevant through relentless posting.

Street Photography removes human subjects entirely, documenting weathered crosswalks and urban debris through hard-boiled detective fiction.

Graphic Images uses fragmented, panel-like compositions inspired by graphic novels to construct a serial political allegory about truth erosion and democratic collapse.

Across all projects, I’m interested in pareidolia, disinformation, and our instinct to impose coherence on fragments—whether in cracked pavement, paired photographs, or manipulated media. The work operates in the gap between what’s there and what we see, asking viewers to complete the narrative with incomplete information.

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