Diptychs
I value the ways in which art permits me to take a moment or an emotion and translate it into an image that suggests an experience to my viewers. Each diptych is shot to allow the images to be seen as familiar yet still obscured. The soft yet slightly bizarre scenes are preplanned and inspired by moods or moments that I experience in my day-to-day life. The use of obscure angles and cropping in each pair allows for private rumination within each viewer. A scene may have multiple pairs that are initially shot, but not all of the images are included in the final product. Each set is shot on analog film, printed in a dark room, and then scanned and printed digitally, all after being meticulously curated. Film photography allows for a grainy feeling of nostalgia and intimacy that can only be evoked through personal memory and experience, and it is this interaction that this series captures.
