About Jon

I’m an artist interested in how meaning emerges from fragments, ambiguity, and acts of interpretation. My work uses juxtaposition, sequencing, found imagery, text, and visual association to examine the impulse to construct narrative and coherence from incomplete information.

Lost & Found collects anonymous photographs, slides, and transparencies rescued from thrift stores and scrap shops. Removed from their original contexts, the images are selected for their mystery, accidental compositions, and the unexpected ways meaning shifts once authorship and personal history become uncertain.

Dip|Tychs pairs photographs of everyday objects, institutional spaces, signage, and architecture. Through juxtaposition, unrelated images begin to suggest narrative, visual rhyme, and emotional association. Titles further shape interpretation without fully resolving ambiguity.

Noise is built from a single photograph of analog television static. By magnifying different areas of interference, abstract compositions emerge from randomness. Randomly generated titles and AI-generated interpretations introduce additional layers of association, using the visual language of memory and documentation to frame imagery that originated as meaningless electronic noise.

24-Hour Flu documents a 24-hour social media performance from 2012 in which 288 images were posted online every five minutes, selected randomly from my iPhone camera roll and paired with found tweets, hashtags, and fragments of online language. The work treats posting itself as both subject and performance, reflecting the compulsive rhythms of early social media culture.

Graphic Images draws from the visual storytelling language of comics and graphic novels, using fragmented compositions and short allegorical texts to construct narratives shaped by political anxiety, disinformation, and social instability.

Street Photography removes people from the frame entirely, focusing instead on overlooked details of the urban environment: weathered paint, torn fabric, discarded paper, damaged crosswalks. Each image is paired with a hard-boiled noir narrative that transforms ordinary street details into atmosphere, evidence, and imagined human drama.

Across all projects, the work operates in the gap between what’s there and what we see, asking how much of what feels like meaning was always already projection.