These images are from a larger series titled"Wish You Were Here," available on my website.
Artist's Statement:
To reclaim a place that for me was mostly characterized by addiction, grief, and major mental health issues, as idyllic, was not easy feat. When I was seventeen, I moved out of New England, drove a few hundred miles south, and lived in DC for somewhere around four years. I had never felt more distant from my hometown, and the region of the country I spent most of my life in— the reason for this being that I endured a lot of trauma during the earlier years of my life in Massachusetts. I was incredibly surprised when I made the decision, in 2019, that I would leave the DMV, and my shitty long-term relationship, to move back because of the queer community in Massachusetts: my best friends of over a decade. I created this series while living between the two places, when I began to finally see a future for myself. I shot this series on Provia 100 slide film because of its ethereal colors and nostalgic association, to view this place through almost a queer lens. While the photographs in this series are mostly lacking people, since the work is inextricably linked to place, I mostly focus on interior spaces or spaces related to the home in order to demonstrate a close relationship with the content of these photographs. My intention was to highlight the intimacy and simultaneous isolation that comes with recovery.
