Lately I have been consumed with reflections on:

(1) how we are always walking away, and

(2) how to accept living in the minds of others outside our own locus of control.

I find this especially fascinating within the archive, and I am consistently drawn to its unknowing subjects. I collect found (lost?) photographs from thrift stores, reuse centers, and donation bins, and I am particularly intrigued by figures whose backs are to the camera, seemingly oblivious to their image being immortalized on film. I create small-scale illustrations of their likeness by hand and digitally impose my drawing over their figure in the photo. This opacifies their form – the subject is obscured once in the source and further in the recreation. The distance separating us from them is made plain alongside the beauty in their disregard for the camera’s trappings and limitations. I hope that my work makes you think about what it means to you to walk away, to be found, and to be changed.