Being Home,
Black and White Digital Photographic Series, 2021

Being Home is a photographic series of the sculptural residue of daily life in a home with the lived experiences of elderly care and chronic illness. My home is filled with assistance equipment that once met my grandparents' bodily and spiritual needs and continues to meet my and my mother's needs. Physical aids become parts of the caregiving experience: they lift and move with both the care-receiver and the caregiver. Aids assist; they become part of the body. The image merges the surrendering of mind, spirit and body, as a symbolic confrontation of mortality: but also the lived everyday experience. They are part of our furniture and the fabric of being a body.