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THE ACCUSED is a film about rape and the people who cheered it on in a bar. The day after I saw this film I went to Harlem and photographed a man covered in blood on 125th Street. He was beaten by a woman who did not appreciate his advances. The following day near Central Park, at the end of The Puerto Rican Day Parade in the year 2000, I photographed men and boys sexually assaulting women. It wasn't until I processed the film I shot that I realized that aspects of the future had leaked to the present via my TV in my apartment in the Fordham section of The Bronx. William Burroughs, one of my literary heroes, actively tried to interpret what he saw in his cut-and-paste techniques with text in order to divine the future. I agree with him that if we use media in ways besides its intended purpose, we can see bits and pieces of the future in order to better control our lives. I do not use his techniques, however. Nor do I use a police scanner in order to photograph some of the mayhem in this city, some of which are projected before you.

New York is like the Tower of Babel. All types of languages exist here: visual language, attitudinal language, implied language, mechanical language and imagined language. These languages occur between objects and people, inside of people as monologues and dialogues and as communication between cells and organs, all the time. Signals are crossed or misread and, sometimes “accidents” happen. New York pulls people and things here. I was pulled here. And I am pulled, further, by an internal and invisible compass which leads me to photograph some of the accidents and disasters in this city. This is my art.

King of TOYS

2006
Drawing, Ink on Elephant Dung Paper
27.94cm X 16. 51cm