mimiking gestures

This selection of images was created within the past year as part of an ongoing set of ideas centered around performing intimacies for the camera. I am recent masters of photography graduate from Pratt Institute and current live in Brooklyn, NY.

My practice is primarily focused on prolonged moments of performative intimacy. Taking a lot of inspiration from the gestures found in movies, I often photograph myself interacting with other people, resulting in images of bodies intertwined or directly attached to each other. With each work I am examining my personal desires and longings while reorienting my current circumstances. Essentially creating images from a place of lack. Focusing on bodies within domestic spaces, such as living rooms, backyards, and kitchens, my images are primarily taken between Brooklyn NY (where I currently live) and Waxahachie TX (where my family lives), and hotel rooms in between. I aim to reconstruct the figures, places, and gestures in my work to create scenes that are a mix of the familiar and the odd. Families, lovers, personal dynamics, and anxieties are all constructed with myself at the center. I allow myself to be the one in the precarious positions, while keeping control of my own shutter through a release cable. Looking at comparisons between old and new bodies, moles and tattoos, shapes and shadows, the work lives within my personal dualities of existence. These images often find themselves on bulky wooden panels with varying distances from the wall, attempting to create almost a staircase of images. They are also shown within books and zines alongside short stories and poems that I write during the creation of my work.