Night Lights

Night Lights is an extension of How lucky we were to have lived, and is an ongoing project that opens spaces of healing and understanding for me, breaking my family’s generational cycles of divorce, abandonment, and loss in order to imagine a better future, and honor family members that are gone but perhaps misunderstood. Growing up in a family fractured by broken homes and early deaths, I see my feeling of displacement within my family history echoed in a larger, growing feeling of detachment within American society. Technically, Night Lights combines digital and analog processes by re-photographing projections of found slides and snapshots with medium format color film. A version of Night Lights was chosen for the 2022 Review Santa Fe and was a finalist for Photolucida's Critical Mass in 2023.