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I am a photographer from New York, currently living in the Hudson Valley with my husband and two children. ��

I have been making self-portraits for the past five years, and it is an ongoing project. When I first started the portraits, they were simply a way for me to see myself in my environment, and a way to push the pause button in the midst of hectic daily life as a freelancer and a mother. ��Making these images of a quiet, calm person was a way of sublimating stress and chaos into something like a deep exhale. ��The woman in the photos has a silent quality, and an interior-ness. ��She is romantically strong, yet maybe tired, though not too beaten down. ��There is a heroic quality of a strong mother and woman inhabiting her domestic sphere. ��I suppose this is an aspect of how I see myself.

My mother died this past summer, on July 19th, and that loss has reshaped the lens through which I understand this work. ��Ever since that day I have felt in-between, on a threshold, in another universe full of un-knowing, floating, questions. Liminal. Liminal is the word that speaks most deeply to the state of transition between having a mother and not having one, and looking over my self-portraits I realized that I have been exploring that idea all along. ��My images are about between-ness, the moment(s) between thinking and action, expectant, moving through thresholds (so many windows and doors), looking outward and inward simultaneously. ��The woman in the photos is both in the moment, and also “above” it. ��
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