Life’s details overwhelm me, and I use the camera’s frame to distill them.  The only aspects of my life that will never change are the simple, yet complex facts that I am first a daughter and now a mother.  The photographic series Last Days encompasses six months, from November 27, 2012 until May 28, 2013, when my daughter had her learner’s permit.  Before then, I had been the designated driver, and my work explored the tedium and inspiration of waiting.

This series of images reveals my experience as a passenger; the square format color photographs acknowledge fragments of the twenty-plus miles of urban landscape my daughter and I navigated together while she drove during this finite period of time.  Black and white photographs supplement those images and examine the intersection of the natural and urban landscapes as I left Griffith Park after dropping her off at school.  Water main construction necessitated waiting in a “flagger operated,” single lane before leaving the park.  I used this time in the halted car to photograph through the driver’s side window, yielding images that reify mostly unexceptional and overlooked visual fields.

highland

eleven

three (color)

nine

cahuenga

five

fairfax

three

park