Close to Home is a series of Pinhole photographs taken in and around locations that intersect with ideas of home and belonging. As someone who has experienced displacement throughout my life, I find that I end up feeling disconnected from the spaces themselves and revert more into my head. I find myself living my own experience of the world through the lens my mind has created as opposed to feeling a connection to the physical world; causing a sense of dissociation between myself and the places that are supposed to be my home. I began taking pinhole images as a way of observing these environments from an unconventional perspective. The slow and distorted process mirrored my contemplation of the subjects as I made the images; processing the ways in which the environments I’ve previously inhabited have impacted my perspective on the external world.
