Moments of Absorption
The work is an inherently human investigation. I visit people in their homes and ask them to try to show me the place that they inhabit when they are alone. The resulting photographs chase glimpses of this world and explore relationships among the subjects, their bodies, and their spaces. The stillness of each image elevates a quiet intensity within the everyday by prolonging a scene’s reflective silence. These interiors represent both the physical space of the home and a more elusive idea of being at home. Ideally the viewer can share in this reverence for the familiar by soaking in the gestures and details within another person’s domestic space and routine.
Homebody
Homebody is an offshoot of my ongoing project exploring interiority, domestic moments, and the reflexivity involved in looking at such imagery. After years of asking people to open their homes, strip down barriers, and attempt comfort in front of my camera, I have turned the lens around on myself. In an effort to consider how becoming rooted in a place can carry vulnerability and risk, I have begun to explore the intimate world of my own home and my body’s presence within it. The process of making these images is playful yet reflects the anxiety of being swallowed up by domesticity and the pull to recede inside.
Through the Plain Camera
