Triptych

Triptych is an ongoing documentary project that contrasts images of the three places that have most affected my life so far - Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and New York. The project examines place, the qualities inherent to it, and how the details and characteristics of somewhere fit and compare to other places. Each location is very disparate - but also so similar when you get down to brass tacks or bricks in sidewalks, fence posts or blades of grass. Our experience in a place shapes it, and that becomes what we see in that place. Triptych acts as a record to compare each of these personally influential areas and visually pinpoint their similarities or differences in the settings that have shaped my life so much. Each triptych consists of one or more images from each state, revolving around a central theme. The photos were captured over the span of the last five years of my life spent in and around these significant spaces, and none of them were planned or staged. The patterns and comparisons or trends and themes between photos only came into relief while putting the project together, as I scrolled through the catalog of previously captured moments to carve out the visual memories and ideas of each place.