In Retrospect
2017-2020
This body of work explores the materiality of photography and its role in shaping meaning and use. I am interested in how people mark their own desire through material intervention on images, thus reasserting their positions as authors. Based on this fascination and drawing from my personal life experiences, I print life-size photographs of significant moments from my past and then stage myself interacting with the people depicted. In doing so, the photographs are materialized into fetishized, desired objects representing loss, and were subject to the acts of interaction, tender touches, and then to be captured once again.