Spencer Vazquez: Glue Traps centers on tape transferring — a technique in which toner prints are copied onto adhesive tape, creating reversed, fragile image surfaces — to process grief over the artist's late father, a housepainter. Using the same blue 3M painter's tape his father used, Vazquez reactivates digitized negatives and family photographs alongside flatbed scans of phone screens, where moiré patterns and temporal distortions translate time into space. The works expand photography's haptic and archival dimensions into an intimate meditation on memory, loss, and materiality.
