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.
To capture this, I took a carton of eggs and fried all 12. I photographed this process in three stages: First, I photographed the eggs in a pure, untouched state. Then, I fried the egg in a pan and photographed it in that state. Finally, I transferred the egg to a plate and photographed it one last time. The result is a grid of images tracking the individual journeys of 12 eggs.
Using the unflinching detail and faithful representation of photography in conjunction with the grid turns what would otherwise be a mindless, indistinguishable product of routine into a one-of-a-kind art object. The grid allows you to follow the evolution of any given egg through these three stages and to compare eggs to see the subtle but inevitable variation between each.
My favorite way to think of the work is as a performance-based portrait of an egg and myself. I engage with the egg in a transformative performance between each photograph to find its new, unique form.