With my grandmother as the main subject of this project, we traveled to her hometown of Ashland, Wisconsin and Kern Lake where she spent the summers before moving away at the age of 20. The resulting images grapple with loss, and how time skews one’s memory and perception of place.
 Toward the end of her life, my grandmother’s time was comprised of idleness, waiting, and reflecting- awaiting “the long sleep” as she called it. I personally struggle with the fear of losing the people I love, and my memories of them, but she has slowly taught me how to embrace loss.
 The work has embodied this process photographically, as well as adding to the ever-present dialog of how photography can both enhance and alter memory.

With my grandmother as the main subject of this project, we traveled to her hometown of Ashland, Wisconsin and Kern Lake where she spent the summers before moving away at the age of 20. The resulting images grapple with loss, and how time skews one’s memory and perception of place.
 Toward the end of her life, my grandmother’s time was comprised of idleness, waiting, and reflecting- awaiting “the long sleep” as she called it. I personally struggle with the fear of losing the people I love, and my memories of them, but she has slowly taught me how to embrace loss.
 The work has embodied this process photographically, as well as adding to the ever-present dialog of how photography can both enhance and alter memory.