Artist's Statement:

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I explore themes of personal narrative and memory by leveraging and interrogating particular aesthetic languages, including the cinematic, the documentary and the editorial. Through the mediums of photography and video, I use scenes from my daily life to create images that emphasize form and geometry. This emphasis on aesthetics makes my images abstract the world, aligning elements of scenes in a way that is fleeting in real world experiences. When viewed as a body of work, these curated moments impose a narrative on the events of my life, allowing it to be contextualized and understood from a unique perspective by others, and by myself. Thus, my practice has a diaristic function in my life. The theme of memory is one that I think about a lot in relation to my work. Even though I consider aesthetics to be paramount, the documentary and personal nature of my images means that they are a window to my past experiences. I see this function of memory as giving my works a universal relevance that evolves over time. To contextualize my practice, I think of artists like Nan Goldin with her piece The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and the street photography work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Goldin’s work proves that themes stemming from personal narrative can be impactful to viewers of any background.

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The analog photography process, including traditional optical printing, is important to my artistic practice. As the industry continues to push newer digital technologies, and in particular AI image generation, I find myself more and more resistant to using any of them. For me, these technologies bring into question the value of the digital image, and indeed, of reproducible images as a whole. I feel the need to draw the line between my work and these ethically problematic and uninspiring technologies. My response to this push is therefore to distance myself from it, by privileging traditional processes that reduce the reproducibility of my work and keep it wholly in the physical world. The limitations of the physical world are also an asset to my creativity. They demand greater intentionality from my ideas and their execution. This is an influence that is lost when using digital technologies that pose no limit to the modifications that can be made to an image.