My work oscillates between the specific—recollections of a personal history and the physical locations of my photographs and videos—and the abstract—the shroud of falling snow, the loss of light in premature dusk, and fleeting, shifting shadows. In my interdisciplinary practice which incorporates analog photography, digital video, and poetry, spoken aloud and written, I excavate layers of quietude that envelop place and space, drawing out and articulating what remains unsaid.
Building on these themes, my recent work explores an expanded sense of the traces and layers of memory in space and place. Through the use of long-expired secondhand film, these images further divorce themselves from the representational world, asking the viewer to examine what is accurate, actual when describing a place. Embracing the increased irregularities of the materials I choose— film others have discarded, cameras whose shutters gape open or stick— I remember landscapes of deep personal meaning to me where I no longer belong. Excavating the complexities of memory and loss, these photographs translate the occupation of a liminal state.
My photographs are often purposefully blurred or taken with expired film, removing a layer of reality and distancing the viewer from the presence the scene suggests, speaking to the burden of memory. These physical and interior landscapes continue to evolve, widen, and deepen, until parts become shallower, soft and are erased, remembered only in anecdote or artifact. These images and videos are both of those, mapping proof of life, my own terra incognita.