I am a visual artist and photographer whose work investigates interior spaces and the layered histories within the built environment. For as long as I can remember, I have had a love for interiors. We didn’t have much growing up in terms of material things. I still remember our barebones living room décor and exactly how it was arranged. My mom, a former ballerina, and a single mother for most of my childhood, made bows for a factory at home so she could stay with my brother and me. She collected home magazines and as a young kid, I used to cut out furniture and wallpaper and create my own interiors with paper and glue. These constructed rooms shot for magazines in the 1980’s and 90’s, was really my introduction to photography. Little did I know that constructing my own interior spaces would become my life long artistic career.
Photography influences our perception of time and space. I am intrigued by the ability of the still photograph to freeze a moment in time, leaving the before and after unresolved, only imagined. My photographs for the last decade have investigated the layered histories within the built environment. Inspired by architecture, film, and literature, creating diorama sets and constructed collages for the camera has been the focus of my artistic practice. These fictitious scenes are metaphors for human psychological, emotional, and spiritual experiences, as the shifts in scale, quality of light, and play of color and pattern, provide an entry for individual interpretation.
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