A Work In Progress

When I was going in for a D&C I brought my camera as a way to calm and distract myself from the procedure. My husband and I had been pregnant and the fetus had died. We are at the age where we need help to get pregnant. Like many couples today, we focused on our careers until suddenly, we were on the edge of not being able to conceive. A Work in Progress is a documentation of the continuous struggle of a couple trying to create a child. The stage is not only in the doctor’s examining room, but also in the spaces of pause along the way before and after (lobbies, vestibules, bedrooms and meeting areas). As with any story, mine progressed, after two miscarriages, many IUI procedures we finally conceive, this series documents that time too. A Work in Progress is a meditation and a calming reprieve from medical procedures and visits that create a rhythmic presence in the life of a patient. This project is created from the visual scope of myself as the patient. The camera becomes a therapeutic element, documenting instances of order that quietly verge on chaos. It is the oscillation between order and chaos, loneliness and partnership, inner and outer space that speaks to human experience and time. The concrete engine that instigates this body of work is the ongoing visits to medical facilities that become rituals, creating intimate spaces of waiting.