A POOR SORT OF MEMORY is a collection of photographs made in and around my hometown in the California desert. As I revisit old haunts, I am reminded of my youthful desperation to find both a sense of belonging and an independent self. But memory is a like a slippery fish and the more I try to pin it down the more it escapes my grasp.
Now as I return to these spaces to photograph, I embrace memory as the unreliable narrator it is and use the tracings of my personal history to craft a new loose photographic fiction. Through metaphor and staged constructions, I weave together landscapes, symbolic objects, and portraiture of my son, Eli, in an effort to contend with vulnerability, isolation, and the awkward process of coming of age.
