Nowhere More Familiar explores the rendering of domestic memory inside a pair of vacant houses. In a model home for an up-and-coming planned community, décor is meticulously staged to evoke a generic suburban domesticity. Bookshelves displaying framed stock photos trigger overlapping feelings of nostalgia and desire. Potential buyers are invited to fill in the fiction with scenes from their own past or project onto it their visions of an ideal future, engaging in a unique kind of voyeurism: an immersive tour of a life that could be theirs. 

Hundreds of miles away, a duplex in a small vacation town was inhabited first by a family of five and eventually rented by a group of twenty-somethings who abandoned it at the end of the summer. A stark counterpoint to the narrative proposed in the model unit, this home lays bare a real and specific history marked by household artifacts and names on the wall. Here, these are not aspirational stand-ins for a hypothetical future; instead, they undeniably signify the past. 

These images imagine a dialogue between a private space and a public one, revealing often uncanny similarities amongst the familiar iconography of home. The series also considers photography’s role in recording or constructing a life, with photographs regularly giving us either something to remember or something to aspire to.