Artist Statement

My photographs have always swirled around my own story from varying distances. From the ubiquitous early self-portraits, to a fictionalized series of photographs, to my most recent pictures where the figure has been completely removed, I have always been interested in the weaving together of personal experience and fictional possibilities. It has always been a way of reckoning with my own history, while imagining others. I am equally inspired by contemporary photography as I am by fiction writing.

The pictures I am submitting are from a recent series taken in homes I am familiar with and house I have never been before. I am interested in the objects in the places, my own connections to them, both real and desired. I have always been fascinated and horrified by the fact that I often feel as though I can’t remember my own life. I know the story but feel disconnected from the experience. The objects in the photographs become surrogates for these experiences. By creeping around these empty houses, staring at these objects through the ground glass, recontextualizing them, I find myself.