Fractional Landscapes

I began Fractional Landscapes in 2019, the final year of my mother’s deadly descent into Alzheimer’s. I had long realized that the notion of a unified world or self is fraught, but watching this truth reveal itself daily, slowly, and inexorably in my mother—as her memory, her body, her mind broke apart—brought it home with an emotional and psychological force I am still confronting. I’ve continued the project since, to explore my broader experience of natural, built, and social environments, and my attempts to conjure and express these sites in memory and narrative. As so many of us face multiple breakage points in the worlds we inhabit, our ability to form a coherent vision of those sites—both collective and individual—feels impossible. These images attempt to give viewers an analog for the resulting sense of dislocation, loss, and anxiety. Read the full statement.