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Part of the "Cygnets" series.

My series “Cygnets” is an attempt to grapple with these concepts, especially as they relate to young people. The work looks for the moments where innocence, in its imaginative naiveté, becomes increasingly at odds with a growing self-awareness. The heartbreak for me is in the vulnerability for the child to identify normative behavior and cultural expectations as constructs and not as truths. I want to make work that very subtly subverts and questions assumptions about projected ideals. My photographs are an attempt to explore rather than dismiss the artificialities of our lives, creating ambiguities that refuse to resolve themselves into any single didactic meaning.

About author:

I am confounded and fascinated by the connection between identity and materiality. Photography gives me the freedom to speak about societal obligation, expectations, and isolation. I have always been drawn to things that are unsettling: the impossibility of any one individual ever truly connecting with another and the ironies generated by the ways we seek to cover up this fundamental reality. We are less interested in knowing ourselves than we are in projecting a perception of self that fulfills some generic category of what success looks like. My series “Cygnets” is an attempt to begin to grapple with these ideas, especially as they relate to young people. The work looks for the moments where innocence, in its free imaginative naiveté, becomes increasingly at odds with a growing self-awareness. The heartbreak for me is in the vulnerability for the child to identify normative behavior and cultural expectations as constructs and not as truths.

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