Ghosts are just old houses dreaming of people to give them a trace of history and meaning. The more absent and discarded these images of dwellings are, the more dedicated my search for meaning in them becomes. The images I use in my work come from databases of images, real estate sites, social media, and archives. Created from multiple images captured in a variety of spaces (and non spaces), each composition is shaped slowly, over time, layer by layer, to replicate a mental experience. The work probes my relationship to home, marked by the loss of its certainties and an overall sense of placelessness. Fragmented images, full of overlaps and distortion, like a corrupted hard drive dreaming of a place to return to.

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Images:
Forest Fire Wallpaper, archival digital print, framed 24” x 18”, 2024
Cicadas, archival digital print, framed 24” x 18”, 2024
Water Left Running, archival digital print, framed 24” x 18”, 2024