"I took them because your hands were too small to hold the camera."

This body of work is comprised of photographs of my childhood objects taken by my mother in 1994. After she took the photographs, the objects were discarded. I was 10 at the time. The images remained as negatives until she passed them onto me.

In arranging this archive, I am questioning the act of making pictures in the endeavor to make memories. What is gained and lost when an object is substituted for its representation?

Referencing the visual aesthetics of post-mortem photography, still life, and Ebay documentation, these photographs manifest both a social and personal visual history simultaneously activated and arrested at the surface of the paper.

"Library"









"Irish Twins"