“Photographed in Tokyo and Kyoto during the fall of 2022, the images are presented here as a catalogue of figure ground studies. Individual buildings have been digitally extracted, with superfluous details removed and recomposed over a field of colour. They have become reverse architectural drawings and in a way are more intimate and closer in experience.In the context of my previous work, Artifact is less about making a conventional image and more about addressing what we are seeing and how we see it. Buildings in Tokyo often stand isolated by scale, purpose, and aesthetics - indifferent to their surroundings but proud of where they are. Gas stations exist next to temples, while old wooden houses sit between new concrete hotels.  To take it all in, once is forced to see selectively, to mitigate what would otherwise be an overwhelming amount of information. However, the camera is less selective and I’ve always found the images I have made here mildly dissatisfying. Visually it was all much too much - I could see through the noise but the camera couldn’t - at least not if I continued to follow my own established conventions. These images are in response to that observation, which I hope can serve as a kind of visual self-inquiry into what a photograph is or should be."