I’ve always been fascinated by the way people can make something truly theirs. Everything around us bears the touch of a person, some sort of mark that person has left on it that fundamentally and irrevocably deems it unique. We are surrounded by this handcrafted ecosystem from the moment we’re born; our surroundings greatly influence us as people, and we in turn greatly influence our surroundings. In my work, I hope to capture the ephemeral feeling of locations that feel familiar yet alien, locations that we feel we once knew, yet the passage of time has warped them into something foreign. By incorporating aspects of my own upbringing, I aim to create a sort of universal setting. Here viewers can recognize elements of their lives and ponder the history of that which they’re unaccustomed to while also grappling with their own stories.
