Change happens. It happens all the time, from the instantaneous chemical reaction within cells to galactic eons as dust coalesces into a star. Our human/technological ability to effect the pace of change on our world, on its processes and on ourselves is accelerating. It is out stripping our speed of thought, of debate, of reasoned decision. 

The Sweet Shrapnel series, is about exploring our pathological need to alter our world.

Change can be good. Change can be bad. When it is change for the sake of making a piece of food more colorful at the expense of flavor, of making it more plentiful at the expense of diversity, of making it more exclusive at the expense of life itself, and/or of making it larger/smaller/different at the expense of an established, time tested order outside of ourselves; then we must question the process.

Or, we will destroy the balance that allowed our life to become in the name of a solely man-made construct: the dollar.

Matt McKee creates photographic images that start conversations. Whether it is a display of his zen-like still lives of beach flotsam, his candy colored fruit grenades in his Sweet Shrapnel series or the iridescent hot and cold colors of fire balls in his Promethean Dreams portfolio, his clean and striking images spark discussions about the hubris of humanity at the intersection of natural processes. His limited edition prints have been seen and collected all over New England, and as far away as London, Sotogrande, Spain and Beijing, China.