Found Gone

My work in the ongoing series, Found/Gone, combines photography and encaustic medium inside reclaimed wooden drawers. The image transfers are largely fragmented self-portraits, symbolizing a disjointed life between motherhood, professional life, and everything in between. Some visages are captured in motion to reflect an overwhelming pace of each day presented compartmentalized, as life can be. Through the broken moments a more revealed self emerges. The photographic process of capturing my own image still and in action fosters a connection between conscious, subconscious, and unconscious mind and emotions. The path I travel making the work explores connections between home, mind, and body and incorporating found materials helps me feel grounded in what’s real and what exists outside of my head. The works traverse feelings explored while struggling to find place, meaning, purpose, and time. The drawers symbolize not just boxes I’m trying to fit into, but also once private places that are now revealed and put on display. Much of my work comes out of emotional divisiveness and being in demand by conflicting forces. The battle between yearning for one thing but doing something else is of great influence.