Word Play
Word Play is a project encouraging a closer look at everyday phrases we take for granted. Reinterpreting their meanings in playful and surreal ways to offer a vibrant celebration and new perspective on the language that surrounds us.
When making these images, I take great pride in doing everything "For Real" by using costumes, props, miniatures, printed backdrops, and generously dedicated models. I find that using techniques like Photoshop compositing would rob me of the gratification I take in this process.
Made You Look
Crowds are more than amorphous blobs of noise. Made You Look encourages deep exploration of crowds through photographic interventions. It seeks to isolate what otherwise gets lost in the noise, uncovering and magnifying the humanity within a crowd. The images were made monochrome to eliminate the distraction of color. The background was removed to focus on people, and they were printed large to resolve every face. One is ambiguously color-coded to encourage pattern-finding.
Mounted prints hang above a custom-made display table, which exposes part of the full-scale prints. Viewers can scroll through to see the entire image.
I Rolled Down a Hill from My Childhood
In my senior year of highschool, a friend of mind reminded me that rolling down hills exists. I joined her in rediscovering this simple childhood pleasure, and quickly found that rolling down hills as a 170+ pound full grown adult is quite different than a 4 ft 60 pound child. I created this project from that inspiration.
One Dozen Eggs
Over the summer, I made eggs for breakfast almost daily for my partner and me. During this process, I always messed up the eggs somehow: sometimes by cracking the egg poorly, breaking the yolk, fumbling it onto a plate, etc. I was drawn to the ritualistic nature of doing it every morning, the performative nature of frying the egg, and the relationship between my actions and the egg's inherent uniqueness, contributing to a different egg every time.
I Miss Seeing the Sky All the Time
I grew up in suburban Boston and moved to New York City for college a few years ago. Despite being a major city, Boston is relatively small in scale and, most importantly, in height, compared to NYC. I’ve always loved seeing the sky back home and having a consistent relationship with it in my daily life. Since moving here, however, that relationship has been squandered by the city's endless density and verticality. This project uses extremely long exposure photographs to reconnect with the sky.