4x5 Negatives
Nostalgia is most commonly related to the idea of longing for the past, or more appropriately a past sense of self-identity. It is a tool to reference and recontextualize the past through a personal lens. Nostalgia lends itself to fantasy as our memories are unreliable. We create gilded moments to revisit as escapism.
My work explores the tangential relationships between boyhood, social expectations, queer culture, and heteronormative assimilationism. Through staged, manipulated and constructed imagery I am able to explore how we pictorially represent space and selfhood. I question what is real, and how we perceive imagery based on its presentation and creation. By shifting between digital and analog practices I condense the space and relationship between images, calling into question our perception of traditional photographic practices.
Looking back on my childhood I see the gaps between nostalgic memories and the events that shaped me. It is in these in-between moments that fantasy, and reality intersect. This intersection represents what we perceive and strive for as children as well as the shifting relationship we have with social structures as adults. My work is a question of acceptance, alternative relational modes, and how I relate to the world.
My work explores the tangential relationships between boyhood, social expectations, queer culture, and heteronormative assimilationism. Through staged, manipulated and constructed imagery I am able to explore how we pictorially represent space and selfhood. I question what is real, and how we perceive imagery based on its presentation and creation. By shifting between digital and analog practices I condense the space and relationship between images, calling into question our perception of traditional photographic practices.
Looking back on my childhood I see the gaps between nostalgic memories and the events that shaped me. It is in these in-between moments that fantasy, and reality intersect. This intersection represents what we perceive and strive for as children as well as the shifting relationship we have with social structures as adults. My work is a question of acceptance, alternative relational modes, and how I relate to the world.
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