“Instead of trying to define the other (‘what is he?’), I turn to myself: what do I want, wanting to know you?”

-Excerpt from ‘A Lover’s Discourse’, Roland Barthes

Where do 'I' end and 'you' begin? Our relationships with other people influence us both physically and psychically—a proximity that can be both beautiful and terrifying.

I make these images using a UV printer and mesh fabric. For this series, I incorporate archival photos scanned from slide film taken during my parents’ honeymoon with photographs I have made depicting other relationships. Interspersed are images of my current partner, always obscured. The mesh acts as a barrier that represents how we can never truly know someone—how we can never be someone else.

I'm interested in how our brains can still 'read' these images even when they have been distorted and broken apart. We fill in the gaps. This makes me think about the fallibility of memory and how it can be fabricated, embellished, and altered.