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As a child, I would visit my grandparent's home and ritually flip through their photo albums in a constant state of fascination. This enchantment was fueled partly by how anomalous images always struck me as evidence of great adventures and partly by my inability to form personal memories of these now familiar people, places, and items. There were pictures of cars, buried up to the windows in snow, sitting in driveways that I had never seen and birthday cakes resting on tables that had long been cast aside. The people that witnessed these events probably considered them normal and everyday occasions, but I was intrigued by the idea of a past that I was not a part of. In not being a participant in the captured occurrence, these events became bigger than they actually were. In my mind and memory, these moments have become epic. It is this powerful ability, which photography possesses, that interests and inspires me in this body of work. That pictures, regardless of facts, can bridge minds by linking one association to another while still carrying different meanings for each mind and viewer. In Travelogues, I travel from one picture book to the next, photographing pictures of locations I am only able to witness through my camera. During my journeys, I slowly start to see the formation of a landscape that had previously only existed in my mind as a place of fairytales and myths. These images, like all images, function and grow by what the viewer brings to them. Each print is on in an edition of five selenium and tea toned gelatin silver prints.
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