Artist Statement

My photographs are composed using a narrative style with themes of identity, grief, and memory. Through stories and vignettes, I examine my experiences of girlhood, the weight of relationships, and the objects and moments that have shaped my identity. Using self-portraiture, familiar childhood items, such as dolls, and spaces I create staged self-portraits or still-lifes. I often fixate on ordinary details that others may overlook, surrounding myself in moments of longing and overanalyzing in an effort to unpack complex feelings and experiences. 

Tightly cropping the images allows me to shape the viewer’s focus, offering only fragments, like a narrator revealing glimpses of a larger, more complex story. Color is equally intentional, manipulated to heighten sensations of nostalgia. I am inspired by visual media that uses color to nonverbally clue into underlying notions or assumptions within a storyline. Through sharing these narratives, I evoke senses of familiarity that waver between comfort and a feeling of the uncanny.