Situated Sampling Set is a series of computer-generated images made for particular places. Developed with Sascha Pohflepp, the works begin with objects used in measurement, surveying and documentation, from mineralogical reference cubes to calibration targets used in NASA’s space photography. These markers help people interpret an image; here, they become its subject.

Digital versions of the objects are dropped into a virtual environment configured for the location, orientation, gravity and lighting conditions of a chosen site. The resulting arrangement becomes a print mounted on dibond and positioned in the place it simulates. A scene generated by a computer is returned to the physical conditions that informed it.

When the print is photographed in place, its simulated objects enter another record of that location. The work moves between simulation, material image and site, asking what makes a picture evidence of where and how it was made. Its apparently chance arrangements bring the tools of precise measurement into contact with the interpretive possibilities of an image.