My work incorporates photographic fragments of industrial landscape as core elements of architectural language. I also include the vernacular artifacts of urban environments in the form of signage and fragments of type. I use a process of layering and composting as a means of ‘remanufacturing’ the built environment. This process of composting is grounded in the complete and intrinsic mutability of the digital image, moving beyond the vocabulary of montage into a disintegration and reconfiguration of the image. I work with images scanned from slides and stills, which are composites done in PhotoShop and Painter software. Superimposed over this collage of fragments are transparent linear pattern elements that imply the grid of the city, architectural plans, and cloth patterns--‘the fabric of the city.’ ” A.W.

1967	born
1970	B.F.A. The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
	Professor, City College of New York; lives in New York, NY