For the past five years, I have been photographically exploring domestic spaces in a body of work collectively titled At Home. Recognizing the house as a container of memories and dreams, I investigate the dichotomy and balance between psychological residue and physical presence. I photograph both actual domestic spaces and dollhouse-scale models and use ambiguous scale and shallow depth of field to blur the distinctions between construct and reality.

In the series Residue (1999 –2002), I paired images of my childhood dollhouse with images of my mother’s current home. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of the house I grew up in, built for me by my grandfather. I utilize the structure as a portal to the past, to manipulate memories of my youth. By pairing these images with images of my mothers current home I explore the authenticity of both spaces and the connections between physicality and significance.

In the Apartment Project (2002 – 2003), I created a dollhouse-scale replica of my apartment, and then photographed the miniature apartment and the full-scale one. This allowed me the ability to work with a miniature replica of a space that I had constant access to. Through photographing both versions of the apartment a tension arises between the inherent nostalgia of the miniaturized space and the immediacy of my actual home.

For my current project, the Daydream, I have designed and built my future home in miniature. The first part of this project consists of images of the houses interior, while the second part deals with the exterior of the house in varying landscapes (the house is finding it’s home). In this work, I consider the connections between geography and one’s sense of home, the relation between the exterior and interior.