HOME
This work addresses the allegory of life as a journey with its homecoming in some afterlife, a return to total safety and love. But even the most positive imagining of a paradise, an ultimate refuge of contentment and peace, has always harbored an ironic dilemma for the faithful; death is the price of admission.
Photographing model houses in studio dioramas, I’ve tried to disorient the viewer to suggest a wary view of a supposedly ideal destination. In the ambiguous world of these pictures, I want home to seem inviting yet ominous, close but inaccessible, familiar and full of mystery.
The pictures are a meditation on domesticity, mortality and the eternal tension between real and ideal.