INSIDE OUT

My small town felt eerily quiet the day our governor announced the stay at home order. A place so vividly alive in the coming of spring quickly diminished to empty streets and sidewalks, even playgrounds were wrapped in caution tape. In a season that traditionally signals new growth, everyone’s stuck indoors looking outwards towards a landscape physically distant from ourselves.

In these unprecedented times, gaining control in our lives is truly within the eye of the beholder. How do we stay positive when we feel locked away, isolated from the our lives outside? Positivity and resilience in situations such as this pandemic do not exist on its own but rather is created by observers.

In this series, I examine this juxtaposition between ourselves in quarantine and the outside world. Taking photographs of my family and friends in the local area, I try to emulate this sharp disconnection and fluid integration between ourselves and the landscape outside.