As a young girl growing up in an Evangelical homeschooling community in the North Country—New York’s rural frontier along the Canadian border—I often felt remote and isolated. When I was around nine or ten, my mother gave me and my sisters diaries so we would practice our handwriting. I began to write routinely in an attempt to make sense of everything—God and my desire to be very good, death, friendships ending, family dynamics. I collected images, papers, and photos and pasted them to the insides of each notebook, collaging each small period of my life.

This habit has stayed with me and I continue to use writing to make sense of what I feel and the world around me, now using film / video and audio as my primary mediums. I am interested in the routine of the day to day, how we interact with the people and places around us and what it means to love them, privilege, the idea of home and identity, tenderness, and reflection. My work is very personal. I layer different forms to create a sort of diary and reflection, frequently using my own experience or background as a lens. I work with both analog and digital and lean towards intimate and by-hand methods like cyanotypes and audio—eliminating a large crew when I can. I often use my own archive of images as well as footage filmed on my mobile phone and with my Super 8 camera.