Back to Reality

In the fall of 2020, I was finding it increasingly hard to stay tethered to reality. In my day-to-day life, I was often overwhelmed by the feeling that I was living in a movie or a dream. Life was nearly unrecognizable and I found myself feeling most grounded in reality in the moments of strangeness when I escaped into scenes that walk the line between fact and fiction. Back to Reality explores these moments of refuge through a lens of escapism as I embrace the bizarre in order to bring myself out of a dissociative state. The series of carefully printed darkroom photographs combine portraiture and still life, feezing intimate moments when life has taken on an uncanny quality that is simultaneously playful and eerie.