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I returned from a trip to Costa Rica back to America wanting to understand what it meant to carry around this identity. Part of the exploration of what my culture is supposed to be took the form of intimate portraits and written experiences of those around me. Feeling out of place telling others' stories, I started to explore my own. I started incorporating archival images, exploring environment and experience. Generational dialogue and divide are told between families in this project. A universal experience put under the lens of trying to understand what it means to be a part of something.
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Where They Call Home
NY, March 25th - April 12th 2024
SOLO EXHIBITION
SVA Photography BuildingNY, March 25th - April 12th 2024
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Stalker
2021
2021
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Self Sanctuaries
Thesis 2024
Thesis 2024
In an era marked by the diminishing importance of communal spaces, where the boundaries between home and work are ever more blurred, the quest for a place of comfort takes on a new significance. I’m drawn to the profound role of comfort in allowing one to explore the depth of one’s feelings. It serves as both an anchor and a catalyst, giving us the ability to adapt our environment to suit our needs and to ground our emotions and experiences.
Using multiple photos, videos, and text, I highlight the people close to me and what they put importance on. In vibrant, color photographs, I incorporate text over the images to reference their voices.
The place where you feel a heightened sense of comfort is where you can be authentically yourself; it may also be a place of vulnerability or a regimen of physical activity. For instance, in the picture of my mother running, running is a way for her to cope with her grief– a way to keep the body from being sick, and a way for her to feel in control and find her comfort.
Having the people in these pieces invite me into their spaces creates an opportunity for me to experience someone’s private world. In those private spaces, I observe the intertwining of comfort and control, acting as symbiotic facets of emotional health. Both offer solace and stability yet diverge in their expression. One provides refuge from the chaos of life, while the other empowers us to shape it.
Using multiple photos, videos, and text, I highlight the people close to me and what they put importance on. In vibrant, color photographs, I incorporate text over the images to reference their voices.
The place where you feel a heightened sense of comfort is where you can be authentically yourself; it may also be a place of vulnerability or a regimen of physical activity. For instance, in the picture of my mother running, running is a way for her to cope with her grief– a way to keep the body from being sick, and a way for her to feel in control and find her comfort.
Having the people in these pieces invite me into their spaces creates an opportunity for me to experience someone’s private world. In those private spaces, I observe the intertwining of comfort and control, acting as symbiotic facets of emotional health. Both offer solace and stability yet diverge in their expression. One provides refuge from the chaos of life, while the other empowers us to shape it.
JaeAlps NJ/NY