House/Hold
24x36” Archival Pigment Prints, Edition 1/3 + 1 AP.
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and
an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
— G.K. Chesterton
The House/hold photograph series are portraits of our family that playfully capture slices of our daily life with surreal viewpoints and dark humor inspired by actual events from bath time to laundry. Born out of our ordinary life and evolved into the extraordinary, the photographs were taken in our home with controlled lighting and composition. We are interested in the identity of the family and how that is communicated as middle-class Americans living in a suburban home with two children, a dog, and too much stuff. Those things that we have worked so hard to obtain become both the burdens and joys in our lives.
Titled after literary and mythological characters, we are referencing historical family stories of heroism and tragedy such as Ophelia, Hercules, Pandora, and Sisyphus. Throughout the House/hold photographs the charged personal narratives of our family speak to the structures of identity politics and consumerism.
