how do you surrender to a drone?, is a cohesive installation of interrelated works. Image objects, documented forms, and sculptural armatures create a new deconstructed means for the presentation of photographic referents. As a starting point, the two-dimensional image is taken as a challenge. The image plane is manipulated to achieve a perceptual shift in the viewer’s experience of the photographic print.

Provisional elements within the installation position the works within a broader theme of politics, war, and abstraction. Evidence of civilian construction, wreckage artifacts, carbonized materials, and representations of the communication methods of conflict play this role; isolating principle qualities of an image and of materials to steer art towards a discussion of complex and charged politics. The installation is a reflective political work that does not respond with the immediacy of an activist stance.