Meteorites
22 Feb, 2024
Meteorites is a diary of analogue images taken on the land I grew up on, documenting the everyday but surreal occurrences of my family’s life. I moved back to my family home to help care for my father in 2021, the year before he died. During this time, I was also working on the land, preparing the house to be sold, and archiving my mother’s and father’s prolific life’s works as artists. My partner and I lived in a caravan while my mother and father lived in the house, so as to maintain some form of social distancing. For a year and a half, I only left this land to go to work. Time warped, I photographed the objects and experiences that contributed to a turning point in all of our lives. The project originated out of a subconscious need to preserve what I had always taken for granted: my surroundings, my home, and the things and people who inhabit these spaces. The series deals with imprints people leave behind, disorientation in a familiar place, and coincidences.
I am a UK-born, queer photographer currently living and making work in New York City, having recently graduated from the International Center of Photography. I was brought up in the countryside in a family of artists: a sculptor, a painter, a potter, a photographer, and a seamstress. While living together in a caravan on a plot of land in 1998, we built the house I grew up in. Since then, I have taken a holistic approach to everything I make. I built a darkroom on the same land and taught myself analogue processes and techniques, from bulk loading my own film canisters to toning the final print, utilising every material and appreciating every step of the process. Due to my upbringing, my inspirations are drawn from various mediums, from painting to sculpture to performance. In my work, I meditate on ideas of home, family and the passage of time by recreating scenes, or embellishing candid details from daily life.