Absence

A photography project from 2009-2011

I am interested in the way domestic spaces convey human presence even when their residents are absent. These spaces can even seem to anticipate the return of the beings who animate them.

In this series I was invited into the homes of friends and work colleagues while they were out for the day or away on vacation. I asked them to leave the house as they would if no visitor were coming. I decided to only photograph in homes that I had never previously visited.

That Howling Infinite

An installation, text, sound, and video project from 2006-2007

Farewell

A photography project from 2007

Video stills from a thermal camera. Printed to 15"x20"

…
Though we are young enough still
And militant enough to be resolved,
Keeping our faces to the front, there is
A moment, after saying all farewells,
when we taste the dry and bitter dust
of everything that we have said and done
for many years, and our mouths are dumb,
and the easy tears will not do. Soon
the north wind will shake the leaves,
the leaves will fall. It may be
never again that we shall see them,
the strangers who stand on the steps,
smiling and waving, before the screen doors
of their suddenly forbidden houses.

-from Going Away, by Howard Nemerov