Barbaric Glass Couplets

The lens of a camera captures what’s in front of it. To create these photos of vintage dolls and dollhouses, I interpose a second lens of ice to capture the myriad ways to view and therefore interpret those scenes, depending on one’s personal and societal memories and influences. The effect of the ice can most easily be understood in these “couplets.” Out of the thousands of resulting frames, I select individual images and short narratives, not to illustrate a preconceived story, but those that reflect how we actually see and think, those that move forward and backward in time, allowing viewers to enter a sphere in which they can find or create their own worldview. "There are many truths, but they are not parts of a truth, though we’d like them to be, and pretend that they are."