Explication, at first glance, appears to be photographic portraits of everyday streetscape objects. Upon further observation and a full realization of the explication of process, the motive of the work shifts to a self-reflexive investigation into photography as a medium. It encapsulates elements that have been of interest to me for the majority of my art making practice: a focus on urban elements of the public space, reflections on perception in relation to optics and illusion, the photographic image as archive, and the visual translation of the photographic image into different forms. Presented through an ironically complex explication of process, the photographic veneers simultaneously conceal and speak to the medium of photography.