Psych Securities LLC is an ongoing exploration of this aforementioned covert reality, most clearly seen while in an alternative psychological state. By compiling declassified documents, historical narratives, and psychedelic conjecture, a visual world is pieced together; undermining strategies of deception and concealed truths.

The images, as photographic composites, mimic this process. The traditions of large format picture taking are practiced (by way of staging, model building, and location photography) and combined with digital synthesis, to render an optically clear, hyperactive final image. The project’s modular presentation allows clustered photographs to resemble the structure of the intelligence networks that have inspired a number of the depictions themselves.

BIOGRAPHY
Born 1985, raised in Daytona Beach, FL. The Brooklyn-based artist studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and graduated with an award for creative excellence in 2007. Edwards has mentored under photographer Gregory Crewdson since 2004. Since then he has taken up with the notorious surf gang, The Goons, which has led to development of sustainable surfboard manufacturing materials, tree houses, and Bollywood style dance party beach cleanups. At the same time, and in a parallel universe, Edwards has been working with the collectives Visual Buffet Public Arts, and the alternative transportation environmental non-profit Blotus.org. His personal work deals with the reconstruction and fabrication of histories through composited large-format photographs and sculptural elements. He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

In 2009, look for the new periodical Radical! Journal, which dives deeply into the fringes of surf culture the world over.

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