24 Frames, 2020 - 2021
For me, the American landscape has always been inseparable from cinema. Films such as Giant and Easy Rider, which I encountered in my youth, left an indelible mark on my imagination and shaped my earliest understanding of what it meant to be American.
Made between 2020 and 2021, these photographs emerged during a period when the country seemed increasingly defined by division, uncertainty, and fear. As the national narrative became more fragmented, I found myself returning to a simple question: What does it mean to be an American today?
Guided by that question, I took to the road in search of a mythical, Technicolor America. Each photograph looks for traces of that vision, exploring the space between the ideals we inherit and the realities we encounter, and asking what remains when the mythology begins to fade.
This is Not My Home, 2012
The images in this story were created to evoke a sense of what the world might look and feel like when filtered through the imagination of a child lost in the transition. I was imagining a magic spyglass that would lead children back to their true home after being displaced.