I shot this project in Ridgewood, Queens during the heavy lockdown days of 2020. Like many others, I needed an excuse to get out and walk around. During these walks I was drawn to the antennas dotting the neighborhood rooftops. It was one of those serendipitous things, the more I looked for them the more I found. The photos here represent a small fraction of the antennas I documented. I convinced myself that these were the last vestiges of a bygone era, that their forms needed to be preserved through a practice of image archeology. Over the course of the next year I walked     everywhere in a five block radius around my apartment, marking off the streets I shot on a large map above my desk. How many of these antennas still grab signals out of the air? How many of them sit derelict, reduced to totems of an aging medium?  

Signal Hopping is above all else an invitation to consider the shapes of communication. It is a formalist analysis of metal and wires; a vision of the shapes of things that once were and the specter of things to come.