Work and school continue to be busy. I met with Shellburne again 2 weeks ago and it was a much needed meeting I had been feeling lost in my work and unsure if it was headed in the right direction. I started interviewing people (friends to start) about home. Asking them to define home and then pick 3-4 objects that created home for them. The interviewing alone brought about interesting conversations and brought my thinking around home to another level. I placed the images of objects in a series with a quote from the interview see image above. Shellburne really liked the work as well as the series I have been working on photographing other objects that are in other people's homes such as beds, kitchen tables, and lamps.
Since then I was able to go home to my parents house and interview my parents and photograph my childhood homes again with a new direction in mind. I look forward to getting in the studio to print the work as well as interviewing other people.
I have been to a couple lectures Tara Donovan at the ICA (10/14), William Christenberry (10/20), and tonight I saw David Hilliard (10/21) which I really enjoyed. I have always admired his work and it seems pertinent again as I begin re investigating series in my work.