Observations

Sifting through web images of homes for sale in the late 90’s, what struck me as horrifying but compelling was the idea that anyone could enter the private dominion of a home with just a few clicks of a mouse. What made it more unnerving was the contrast between what a virtual home tour intends and what it accomplishes — it’s meant to show the home to its best advantage to a potential buyer, but what happens is the virtual tour camera gives a distorted view of the interior spaces, giving the illusion that something is not right psychologically with the home. The distortions remain inescapable; in every room of every house regardless of asking price, there were curving hallways and sloping floors and lamps shining as though they were on fire. The distorted interior spaces became eerie portraits of the psychological underpinnings lurking in these deserted, furnished rooms. For this series, I wanted to explore what was hinted at, to examine moments in the private lives of the previous owners, and begin to reveal these psychological secrets: arguments that should have disappeared into the air but instead clung to the walls, themes of entrapment and desire for escape, locations of personal injury, and issues of control and longing.