Touched Photos

Straddling the line between a photo and a painting, these works present the photo as a document that is not fixed but mutable. Photos often become synonymous with memories, as evidence, index, or narrative that evolves and morphs over time. After the loss of my father when I was eleven, I turned to photos to immerse myself in what felt like the “before” of my life, to study and reconstruct an increasingly elusive vision of my father’s face. Photography in my adult life became my practice of engaging with the world, as well as my chance to grasp hold of the ever changing tides of life. 

In these works, the surface of a print becomes porous boundary where technology interfaces with the body, past meets present, and the fixed becomes fragile. They resist the notion of the photograph as truth, instead revealing it as a living surface where presence and loss, image and touch, continually blur into one another. Through their surface instability and physical intervention, these works reimagine the photograph as a living site of encounter where memory, absence, and material process continually rewrite one another.