About This Work

I made this photograph of an empty room from my own experience with home and family. The past is here through memory but sometimes I imagine what’s going to happen, so the future is here too through imagination. When memory and imagination bring the past and the future together, they collide in a single instant, a Eureka moment richly laden with meaning more felt than understood. This photograph is such a moment. The dollhouse in the photograph is circa 1900s and measures three feet high by four feet wide. I used a variety of lenses, perspectives, lighting and digital techniques to create a sense that the rooms are real but at the same time disturbingly not real. I used lights ranging from strobes to pencil flashlights and had small mirrors made so I could photograph some of the room’s interior corners.. This is a UV flatbed print on 1/8” white dibond, sealed, with an inset frame on the back for a full-bleed mount. At this size, the image rewards you visually from thirty feet away, giving up more information as you make your approach. The overall effect is a lustrous image that seems to float in its space. When you purchase your piece, I am available by email, phone or Skype to consult with you about placement. My shipper does a phenomenal job packing so your piece arrives in immaculate condition. Separately, I will send you my letter of provenance describing your new piece, when it was made, it’s number in the edition of 100, and the manner in which it was produced. Dollhouse was published in the fine art photography journal Eyemazing, where art critic Heather Snider wrote, “…. the question of whether this place is a real house or a dollhouse is ultimately irrelevant.The more time one spends looking at the Dollhouse photographs, the less important the actual place becomes. The experience of place, the emotions, memories, and intangible sensations evoked by this place, are what give it a distinct presence.”