After traveling East nonstop for two years during the pandemic (I kept going as there was always more East), I began to long for home. What did that mean, and where was it?  Was it a structure, place, location, a connection? During this time of introspection and literally searching for a place to live, I began work on this project that explored the concept of Home. As I made, collected and reviewed images, I realized that it was not a structure, it was an emotional connection to a physical place and increasingly, it became clear that I was focusing on the Memory of home.

These images are illustrative of something which lies beyond the actual images themselves, something which is intangible and not open to direct illustration. My work is a visual metaphor; a visual realization of something that is non-visual. Photographs are often perceived as objective records of reality, however our memories of the time that the photograph represents can depart from the visual object. Memories in time become altered, distorted and modified. This project uses the object, a photograph, to explore how one reinterprets memories, how we shape and revise our understanding of the past. To that end, my process in this project has become one where I am altering, distorting and modifying multiple images, creating a visual narrative seen through the haze of memory. I began with my photographs taken using the documentarian tradition of lens-based capture and layered them with personal vernacular family photographs and text. A section of the series is 3D, presented in shadow boxes including natural materials, mirroring the physical attributes of place.

The images demonstrate photography’s link to time, photographs that conflate memory to a moment outside of the temporal flow. The images have the ability to evoke memories, particularly when the spectators have a relationship in some way with the depicted.