Almost Home

Almost Home contrasts scenes of domestic closeness and a breaking wave, transforming them into cyanotypes through collage and masking, asking what remains of both a photograph and intimacy once the summer is over.

This series begins with analog photographs of domestic intimacy and a breaking wave: ordinary scenes gathered around the passing of summer. I print the photographs, cut them into shapes, and arrange the fragments as masks for cyanotype exposures. Through this process, the photograph becomes a physical object used to produce another image.

Cutting and masking remove much of the information through which a photograph describes its subject. Faces lose their features, fabric becomes an expanse of white, and a wave becomes an uncertain contour. Recognizable scenes persist alongside shapes that resist identification. I explore how far an image can be transformed while retaining a connection to the moment it records.

This movement between recognition and abstraction reflects the fleetingness of the experiences themselves. Domestic routines and moments of closeness can feel enduring while they are happening, yet their particular details are difficult to hold onto. The attempt to preserve them here also involves their partial disappearance.

Working with cyanotype, I bring camera-made images into a process of direct contact, light, and material obstruction. The resulting works occupy a space between photograph, collage, and print, asking what remains when an image can no longer show everything it once held.