Statement
The places people inhabit can be a place of comfort, relief, isolation, apprehension, anxiety, and fear. It may be a place were one finds their identity at odds with the people around them. I am interested in the dispositions, attitudes, and conflicts that arise in these environments.
In my photography and video work I try to convey the experience of what it means to occupy a particular space. My work hints at the many facets of living in a domestic space: such as tensions in family expectations, gender roles, comfort, and languid ennui of home life. All the while thinking of the aesthetic beauty that is nevertheless present.
In the photography series, A Lapse, comfort in a space is further explored. I try to compose the subjects in a forced sort of comfort. To do this, I concern myself with placement and prolonged position, where each shot is a long exposure where the subject must sit for a longer period of time than usual to make an exposure. The subjects become juxtaposed between seemingly organic and an aesthetic environment while being in an artificial, staged, and affected manner. This series might serve a springboard to what my work continues to be about. The beauty of home as well as the insecurity of it.
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