What's It Like: Photoseries
Personal art piece of original photos collected between 2015-2020. Included in public installation by Club D'heure entitled "Ten-Minute Network: Volume One".
Didactic
The “What’s It Like’ series presents 114 photos personally taken between 2015 to 2020.
From Ottawa, Kingston, Cambridge, New York City, Toronto, Lisbon, Faro, London, Paris, and Vilnius, each door comes from a city that I’ve had the opportunity to experience, whether for days, months, or years.
Each door is a snapshot of coming and going; from cities, buildings, homes, and people.
A door holds the simple metaphor of coming and going. A portal between two places: where you are now, and what is on the other side. It can be the embodiment of an entire narrative.
Maybe you know what’s on that other side, maybe that’s where you just came from, maybe it’s somewhere you return to often, maybe it’s somewhere you’ve always wanted to be, or maybe you have no idea what lies beyond the frame.
In any situation, it’s your choice whether to move through that doorway or not.
What’s it like to stay? What’s it like to go?
114 doors, in 10 cities, taken over 5 years.
Each door reminds me of a memory of that time and place.
Each door has its own significance, whether time spent there was a fleeting second passing by, or a constant staple in my once daily life.
Each door carries that same mystery.
I'm not naturally a nomadic type, but every time I find a new home, in a place or in people, I build a part of myself there. I am thankful for my opportunities to be in so many places, and having so many homes in places and with people. But I'm split in a doorway of being in and out. I'm always thinking about a life somewhere else, my next step when I leave, while fantasizing about my life there, what it could have been if I stayed.
One foot in, and one foot out the door.