PHOTOGRAPHY

Sticky: photobook project

Sticky is a collection of imagery created from digitally manipulated and collaged photographs. Residue of play, childhood, food, filth, and repetitive tasks glom together to form a new and dizzying world -- one that is colorful, playful, sometimes repulsive, and silly. The maximalist vision within can be enjoyable and also overwhelming as there are too many things to look at and monitor like a misprinted kid’s seek-and-find book where you have no guidance about what to seek or find or why. 

This series of photographs is an attempt at visualizing my experience with parenthood. Sticky attempts to take my anxiety related to present-day Western motherhood and use it as inspiration for art-making. Through these playful photo-based collages, I use what causes me stress and re-organize those elements into a comical, swirling and sticky mess.