About

Many of the pictures I make begin as elegies or lamentations. Domestic failure is an ongoing project about memory and loss; sweetness; and the complicated nature of our relationships. I started the project before the Covid pandemic, but it gained poignancy and a deeper relevance as I spent more time in solitude and away from loved ones. Flowers bloomed and gracefully faded, mirrors gathered dust, silence became loud, inner life pushed outward.
In observing my surroundings, in the studio or exploring the quiet outside, I began to think of making pictures in the same I way I think about writing. …