Americanized

Americanized is a photographic project using AI-assisted erasure to remove figures from domestic interiors. Working from personal archives, it explores assimilation, authorship, and how images flatten individuality through absence.

Americanized is a project built from family photographs and domestic interiors that have been scanned, reprinted, and recontextualized. Rather than centering people, the work focuses on the spaces they occupied—tables after celebrations, chairs left empty, objects arranged through habit and routine. Figures are removed or implied, allowing absence to become the primary subject.

The project reflects on how assimilation is lived quietly, through repetition and environment rather than spectacle. These interiors hold evidence of belonging, conformity, and erasure without needing to name them directly. By working with archival material and installation, Americanized treats the home as a site where identity is shaped over time—through what is preserved, what is normalized, and what disappears.