FRAGMENTS
Digital Photographs
2021 to present
I document the ordinary debris that clings to homicide scenes—a mini liquor bottle, a piece of Styrofoam, a crumpled frozen food bowl—objects unrelated to the crime yet irrevocably altered by proximity to violence. These fragments are neither evidence nor memorial, but silent witnesses to the dissonance between traumatic events and the indifferent continuity of the world.
By isolating these mundane materials against the charged geography where life was severed, the work exposes our compulsive need to ascribe meaning. A child's tennis shoe discarded on a driveway becomes a mute oracle; weeds growing through cracked pavement turn into unwilling participants. The landscape refuses to collaborate with our narratives of closure.
These photographs and assemblages are anti-archives. They preserve not truth, but the unbearable lightness of coincidence—asking what it means when places absorb tragedies while litter continues to accumulate, when nature keeps cadence with the seasons.
