Expectations Revisited

This project is an investigation of the ironic contradiction of authentic experiences derived from artifice. The images in this body of work are not simply about the real being read as fake or vice versa, but are about the experience that is the result of that collapse. The photographs simultaneously depict the emotional and intellectual criticism and seduction of forming connections through simulated experience. The images portray unmet expectations through the depiction of fabrication and invoke desire and nostalgia for a genuine experience, even from subjects that are knowingly inauthentic. Perhaps most accurately, the aesthetic of this body of work has been described as “a child dreaming on mescaline while thinking about Baudrillard.”







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