It is a longing for connection with others, and a desire for familiarity, that compels me to photograph. My physical understanding of a place is the variable that determines my feeling of safety within it. In an attempt to bury my roots somewhere new, I use my camera to facilitate exploration. Photographs are notes. For me, they are the reminders of where I was, and inform where I am going. The images made, in turn, become my amorphous, guiding entity through any state, town, or alleyway, being led only by the child-like impulse to ask the question: “What’s over there?”
The perimeters that I follow when creating a body of work are often geographic. In this instance, they bring me to Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico - the places where my family and I live. I am attracted to broken-in and well-loved areas - places that exist threadbare from the passage of time. My interest in these spaces allows me the opportunity to digest the intimate peculiarities of a place, forcing me to call into question my preconceived notions of where I belong, and who is a part of my community.
