My practice involves defamiliarization of everyday imagery that calls for identification. The everyday is presented in a new light as subjects are veiled in exaggerated lighting, observed at night, and captured in fleeting glances. What do you see? What are the cues? When glancing at the details of unspecified images and objects, the viewer may fall into a reverie of imagined scenarios. My work, In Dark, You See Everything, invites the viewer to an enticing glimpse into a stranger’s window at night. Allured by the warm, dim glow behind the sheer curtains, anticipation builds for the unfolding of the next scene: Who is behind those curtains, and what happens next? The spectator becomes an unwitting participant in the silent drama.

When the familiar transforms into something foreign, the mind strives to identify and attribute meaning, thereby making it familiar once more. To bring about this transformation, I distort the original subject through dramatic light, cropping, desaturation, double imagery, and discomforting encounters.