Final Works
This photographic series explores North Georgia as both a physical place and an emotional landscape, shaped by personal memory and lived experience. The work considers the region as a space where beauty and discomfort exist side by side, resisting romanticized visions of the South. This series reflects a complex sense of home, tension, and an awareness of historical weight. Together, the photographs form an interpretation of a Gothic sense of a southern home, defined not by spectacle but of quiet complexity.
The work is driven by a desire to understand the duality of a place being home and a mystery. Influenced by Southern Gothic visual and literary traditions, particularly Clarence John Laughlin, photographer, and Flannery O’Connor, writer. These artists focused on themes of focusing on themes of decay, violence, systemic racism, and social alienation. The photographs approach landscape as something psychological as well as physical. The gothic themes focused on in this series are decay and social alienation.
These ideas are represented through photographs of the Appalachian landscape and rustic architecture. The images focus on stillness and atmosphere, allowing the viewers to reflect on the calm but also dark photographs. These photographs put on the mirrors allow the viewer to be the person in the environment shown. This series invites viewers to look closely at familiar landscapes and consider the emotions, histories, and contradictions they hold. By holding beauty and tension in the same frame, the work offers a reflection on home as something deeply felt, unresolved, and continually shaping who we are.