Set in the rural outskirts of Austria, my work combines candid images of village life with staged scenes performed by actors to construct a fictional world that explores loneliness, isolation, and belonging.
As an American living in a small town in Austria, this work has evolved over the past two years to become about my own conflicting emotions tied to always feeling like an outsider in a small town.
By merging real portraits of the people in my town with staged scenes involving actors, my current work blurs the lines between reality and fiction and investigates the layers of my identity as an American expat living in Austria for many years.