Tools such as books and photographs have been used throughout my life to supplement first hand experiences in my understanding of societies and cultures, including my own. …I was mostly taught to obediently consume images in a very literal way and not to question so-called factual visual sources.

It is not my hope that the viewers’ interpretations align with my own. I am more interested in generating a visual experience that disrupts expectations – one that encourages more thorough investigation of visual information, especially of those images that explicitly educate to form beliefs and identity.