I have developed an unusual cameraless photography technique that uses an industrial lidar scanner to create 3D models of a landscape and render a drawing/photograph of that scene.  I call it a Lidargraph.  I move a sensor hundreds of times to generate a complex image consisting of millions of reflected laser points.  Lidargraphs are spectral, looking more like paintings than photographs.  The resulting 3D model makes a "quantum photograph," capable of existing from any point of view, yet none at all until a virtual point of view is defined.  The use of lidar is commonplace in architecture, construction, and archaeology, but it is an unexpected tool for an artist to use for poetic and expressive effect.  I have been using lidar in public spaces to explore the aesthetic and poetic meaning found in compositions of bodies moving through architecturally designed space.

My work begins with the tools of science, but my motivations are guided by deeply human concerns: the displacement of communities through urban planning, the psychogeography of people moving through shared space, and the way audiences are drawn to sites reverberating with ancestral memory.