what does something look like when it doesn’t exist anymore?

Recipient of the ‘Distinguished Photographer Award’ for VCUarts' 2018 Undergraduate Juried Show "Sic Semper Tyrannis" juried by Alex Klein of the ICA Philadelphia.

This series is a triptych of still lives compromised from the intense documentation & objects of that home. I printed out 44”x66” negative images of the interior of my Grans home and installed them within a set I built. Objects include things that my Gran gave me directly, like the scarves, or objects that i found that represent her aesthetic. I then would use the invert function in photoshop to bring the negative prints into positives, while simultaneously shifting the physical world into the other. I wanted the grounding point of what we perceive as “real” to fluctuate between the prints and physical objects. Inversion as a tool and concept also acts as an underlying motif for queerness, especially since the word “inversion” itself was used to mean “homosexual” in historical terms; whether I physically invert and “other” a site through still life or digitally use the invert tool, I am fascinated with the slippage of what is real and unreal, and what “belongs”.

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