Somewhere within and without
Making pictures is my way of processing the intimacy of my lived experience while simultaneously trying to learn and understand more about the world that we’ve all been given. Somewhere within and without, deconstructs the ways I engage with memory, perception and time. Harnessing light and material, I carefully construct quiet still lives and purposefully place installation pieces together to subtly direct the gaze both inward and then out again.
These images are a synthesis of my internal and external encounters. Everyday household objects are gathered and arranged, briefly grounding the self in the familiar and the domestic. In tandem, an alchemy occurs and materials become untethered from convention and association, creating space for new meanings within meanings. The remnants reveal the delicacy and uncertainty of events that make up my one precious life and allude to larger more existential inquiries.
Like poems, these artifacts and moments distill into crystalline forms, elegantly fixed, completely fragile, ephemeral.