Texts, emails, voicemails, and online chats saturate my daily life. They promise connection but often produce isolation and overwhelm. My work grows out of lived experiences of distance and the ache of holding relationships across gaps in time, space, and attention. As channels of communication increase, missed connections and lingering absences multiply. I am interested in the spaces that emerge between people—where connection may feel close but incomplete. I explore what remains unresolved in our attempts to reach each other across both physical and digital spaces.
In Photo Album Series, I reflect on relationships with people and places from my past, including distance from family members and the lingering presence of childhood environments. The works draw on memories of growing up, homes and streets left behind, and relationships sustained across time and space. Text, imagery, and reflection overlap to express longing, affection, and separation. Messages such as “I miss you. I wish we weren’t so far apart” appear throughout. By engaging with these works, viewers are invited to consider how memory and intimacy persist, fracture, or fade when filtered through digital images and screens.
My exploration of communication shaped by technology takes form in Waiting for Your Response, an immersive installation that gathers attempts to connect spanning more than a century. At the heart of the installation are return-to-sender letters from around the world, echoed by answering machine messages, text fragments, and online posts. The projected scrolling text displays messages contributed by viewers addressing people they wish they could reach. These communications accumulate without resolution, revealing both the persistent desire to connect and the frequent failures of such attempts.
Across my practice, viewer engagement is central. I create environments that invite people to recognize their own feelings of connection and separation within the work. By placing viewers inside communications affected by delay and interruption, my work asks how we reach for one another and what remains unresolved in the space between presence and absence.