19/Nineteen (2019-2020)
Conducted as an exploration of the number nineteen and the changing of the decade from the 2010s to the 20s, this project captures our descent into a global pandemic as well as personal trajectories throughout the course of the year. Nineteen was chosen as a topic of investigation as it was a significant number playing into my anxiety about pending transitions; I was nineteen years old and 2019 was quickly drawing to a close.
Beginning on October 10th, 2019 and concluding a year later in 2020, a photograph was taken every day for a year on a rotating schedule, as well as every hour for twenty-four hours on the 19th day of each month. For example, if one day an image was taken at 7:19 pm, the next day it would be taken at 8:19 pm. The images were taken quickly and in the moment of whatever I happened to be looking at or doing without regard to what the image would look like.
Shown above are installation shots, followed by a slideshow of all individual images shown in chronological order.
Exhibited: 2021, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY