twice

twice is a reflective series of black + white 35mm prints. The 2 rolls of film that produced the selection of images were unintentionally exposed twice; once in 2002 when I was 7 years old, and again in 2019 when I was 24 years old. This occurrence was a moment of happenstance that documents two separate, but connected experiences. Without my knowledge, I had created a second exposure on top of the very first rolls of film I ever shot. That second exposure found me 17 years later, 6 years into focused art study, 1 year into my Masters of Fine Arts degree, and in the midst of a fellowship in an art gallery abroad. Each image feels like a representation of two, very different, distinct versions of me. Two representations of one life, separated by nearly two decades of lived experience.

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In the initial exposure, I captured impressions of my childhood home and those I shared it with without any specific approach to my image-making. I was a child playing, without any intentions or expectations for what I was making. My focus seemed to be on documenting those things around me that I cherished. Things that were, in many ways, a reflection of myself at that time: my childhood bedroom, my toys, my pets, my family members. In the second, I documented my movements around a brand new place, navigating the beginning stages of my career. As if in contrast to the experience of creating my first layer, I was hyper-focused on growing in my practice as an artist seeking to produce compelling renderings of my experience. The resulting images offer a layered and complex documentation of the passage of time alongside the inevitability of change. As the first image handler, I had no idea that I would one day seek to study, practice, and invest in art and image-making as the cornerstone for my life and career. As the second, I functioned with no awareness that I was working with complexity and dissonance in the imagery I was creating with misguided focus, intention, and care. The images, in many ways, feel like an intentional exchange, reaching beyond the element of chance, as they seem to fit together with marked cohesion.