In my current photographic work, I create visual equivalents for emotional and psychological states through constructed self-portraits. Thresholds, both physical and psychological, architectural and symbolic, play a major visual and conceptual role in these images.
In this paper, I provide examples of my visual work within a series of brief autobiographical narrative fragments. These writings do not explain the photographs; rather, they provide insight into the experiences in which and from which I make art. The narratives consist of journal entries made during road trips, remembrances of psychiatric hospitalization, glimpses into a tumultuous relationship, descriptions of my process of photographing, and fragments of letters and emails that others have sent me. Taken together, the texts and images portray the sense of disorientation, fragmentation, and loss of focus and perspective that frequently characterize my lived experience of the world.