Emanating from my own photographs, these highly saturated, cinematic tableaus explore isolation, voyeurism, self-deprecation, and humorous moments experienced in everyday life around my native Los Angeles and its surrounding suburban areas. Using cellphone images as a compositional sketch, my works often explore liminality, a quality of being in between two places or stages or something on the verge of transitioning to a new beginning. These quiet moments—like a casket factory seen through a chain-link fence, an overgrown garden bathed in street light, or trash left behind at a ballgame—are often perceived as abandoned or frozen in time, but they offer me a way to explore life’s physical, emotional, and metaphorical growing pains. These works also probe an undercurrent of loneliness that runs beneath L.A.’s beautiful landscape—vulnerability often neglected in the social media age, which generally prefers idealized versions of the self.