I have always been interested in the way in which people experience the temporary as permanent. Many of us have the privilege to view our lives as permanent because our lives are so comfortable that we need not think about our own mortality. Our needs are met and so we do not feel the change that is occurring around us because we are content in our surroundings. Our privileged lifestyle allows us to get caught up in the now until something uncomfortable or different makes us realize the true nature of things.

My installation aims to call attention to the temporary by creating a temporary situation in which people view something that is in itself temporary. By using photography, a medium which is directly tied to documentation, I attempt to show the fast moving nature of life through instances that now only exist in frozen moments of time. The images are linked to one another sometimes through content but other times through shape, pushing the viewer onwards through the pacing of the photographs. Through these images I challenge viewers to experience something temporary and accept it as such, hopefully drawing on their own life experiences to better understand mine.

I decided to build a geodesic dome and place living room furniture in it to create a temporary structure that would be separate from peoples’ daily lives. By placing the magazines in the geodesic dome I have created an experience for the viewer that is also temporary. The dome itself will be taken down and the magazines will be put away. The photographs the viewer sees are all experiences that have already happened to me, and so they are temporarily experiencing things that were temporary in my own life.