House Watch By Skott Chandler

Skott has exhibited work throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Hong Kong and Geneva, Switzerland. Skott was recently selected by New York photography collector and curator, W.M. Hunt, and Klompching Gallery owner, Darren Ching, to exhibit at Brooklyn’s Klopmpching Gallery in their inaugural FRESH 2011 photography competition. Skott was also chosen by Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, as one of the Top 30 Emerging Artist Under 30 for 2011.
House Watch Project
Humans have many levels of connection with their personal spaces. Narratives within these domestic spaces differ depending on the inhabitants and their activities that may be mundane, ambiguous, hilarious, absurd, or unsettling. The space within a house affects the inhabitants, and the inhabitants affect the space–an oddly intriguing phenomenon that proves difficult to visualize. Creating a photographic representation of such an abstract emotional experience was my motivation. The photographs take the perspective of an omniscient voyeur investigating the dynamics of space within a home. Ceiling mounted pinhole cameras cast an unflinching gaze upon the inhabitants and rooms within the walls; not to judge, but to witness.