This work explores the allegory of life as a journey that eventually leads to home. The security associated with our actual homes seems to easily imply the existence of some ultimate refuge of total contentment. Ironically, of course, you must forego all comfort and security to get there. The idea of an afterlife has always harbored this dilemma; death is the price of admission.
Photographing model houses in studio dioramas, I've tried to disorient the viewer and create doubts about the nature of an ideal destination. In the ambiguous world of these pictures, I want home to seem inviting yet ominous, close but inaccessible, familiar and full of mystery.
The work is a meditation on domesticity, mortality and the eternal tension between real and ideal.