Photographed in Tokyo and Kyoto during the fall of 2022, Artifact is presented as a catalog of figure-ground studies. Individual buildings have been digitally extracted and superfluous details have been removed and recomposed over a field of color. 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. In the context of my previous work, here it is less about making a conventional image and more about addressing what we are seeing and how we see it. They have become reverse architectural drawings and in a way, more intimate and closer in experience.