Moonshine treehouse

This series explores how the relationship between reality and use of a camera has changed our experience of the actual moment. Working with digital painting allows me to destroy the “reality like” spacial relations that photography relies on to be seen as a perfect rendering of life. Instead, I recreate the spacial relations based off of how I remember the experience through elaboration and exploiting the colors that are not initially in the foreground. The images take place in a bar in Mishawaka, Indiana where my friends and I would go to drink when we all had the chance to be together again. I had asked my friends to take photos with disposable cameras instead of their phones so that they cannot be edited in-the-moment. I had no intention for these images and they sat undeveloped for 4 years. It wasn’t until I move to North Carolina I was compelled to develop the film. I find it interesting to see what they wanted to remember but also what they found important. While at the time they were just us goofing around, I see them now as a celebration of a post-industrial community life.

Digital Painting. Fall 2017