Transient

Observing and documenting the passage of time, I photograph ordinary details in and around the domestic environment, emphasizing the tenuousness of the light as the world changes outside. This attempt to salvage beauty in an unlikely space cultivates a profound visual silence amid impermanence. While the photographs make the psychological environment tangible, the flat affect and reductive compositions deflect the physical world of specifics and attempt to preserve that which is fleeting and ineffable. The series Transient uses traditional photographic processes to explore physical and emotional states of impermanence and isolation. As the wife of an Air Force officer living off-base in Lancaster, California, I make photographs within and outside of the undecorated walls of our rented "home," betraying my preoccupation with the uncertainty of military life and the inevitable and multiple relocations over the next ten years.