Personal Project: Quarantine 2020
At times of great stress in my life, I turn to making photographs in order to process my feelings and remain functional. Quarantine is an ongoing collection of photographs, mostly portraits, of my family that I started when we went into quarantine in March 2020. We’ve been spending every single day together for over a year, working and schooling from home.
These photographs are dramatizations of our mundane moments—eating dinner, brushing hair, practicing piano—that through formal elements speak to both the everyday and the extraordinary. There are instances of strangeness in the ordinary given the context of our confinement. At some point in the future, I suspect this time together will feel mythic and I hope my photographs will function as physical and psychological reminders of our shared experience.
