Epilogue to an Avalanche.
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Dates2022 - 2025
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- Locations Maine, Falmouth
Epilogue to an Avalanche employs poetic logic and evidentiary structures to interrogate how images mediate neglect, family, and mental illness within a broader visual system.
Epilogue to an Avalanche is a long-term photographic project examining familial systems, emotional withdrawal, and the slow mechanics of neglect as they unfold across domestic space. Rooted in the artist’s lived experience, the work approaches biography as unstable material to be tested, distanced, and structurally examined.
The photographs are made using a large-format view camera, with the ground glass functioning as both portal for re-processing. The inverted, slowed image becomes a site of mediation rather than immediacy, allowing lived experience to be re-seen, re-ordered, and held at a distance. This deliberate working method introduces friction into the act of looking, transforming photography from documentation into a process of measured reconstruction.
The project was developed through an extended period of accumulation and reduction. More than 1,900 4x5 negatives were produced and subsequently edited down to 37 images in the final series. This process mirrors the project’s conceptual framework, emphasizing how meaning emerges through sustained pressure and the careful withholding of resolution.
The images occupy ordinary interiors and peripheral landscapes where gestures of care coexist with quiet forms of suffocation. Rather than depicting moments of rupture, Avalanche focuses on accumulation and latency, describing psychological states that register slowly and only in retrospect. Dingy rooms, dusty surfaces, and unmade beds operate as points of tension where internal experience becomes briefly visible without being explained.
Avalanche does not attempt to reconcile or redeem the family archive. Instead, it maps the systems that shape intimacy, inheritance, and retreat; asking how photography can articulate long-term emotional neglect without spectacle, and how meaning can emerge through restraint, distance, and formal control.
