Convention

Convention recreates moments in my memory from the weekly trips to my grandparents' house in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania. These photographs become a fabricated document of a scene that could have occurred any time over a period of 25 years, celebrating the consistent creation of these spaces and moments, and the human interaction within them.

Recreating these scenes allowed me to experience the amount of work put into our family time, particularly by my grandmother for dinner each week--labor motivated by love, duty and tradition that attempted to create this safe space for our family to convene. Also the work of my grandfather in this particular town is seen. Industry provided the house; the house provided the space for the industry of home making to create family; family then reconvened within that space.

Each of the following eight images are large, stitched photographs, meaning made up of many smaller images to create one large, detailed piece. At the very bottom is a grouping of supplemental photographs that punctuate the story.

Romania

Photographs taken in Bucharest in fall 2009 juxtaposed with photographs taken in the same location just over 2 years later in early 2012.

With much continued investment, change is seen rapidly in Romania (in major cities at least) since their entrance to the EU in 2007.