Collage

There and Back Again, Again addresses a multifaceted threshold from my personal life: the highway. After moving to Los Angeles from the San Francisco Bay Area, I have spent weeks if not months of my life driving from here to there, one home to another, always in between. I get stuck in the liminal space of I-5 where I am not claimed by a physical, geographic community of people. But, in parallel to my own experiences with this psychological transition, one much bigger than me or any individual human takes place. That is the connection between the natural world and the human world and where I feel those boundaries begin to blur in central California. The birds present represent the journey or transition between these two places. The images, in general, are a depiction of my own feelings and associations with specific areas of this state, or my personal experiences. The photos are only fractured objects, however, they are mounted together to create a new whole, a new mapped reality that no one will be able to follow but me. This piece deconstructs binaries in my life and the world by recognizing the connectedness of opposites and calls into question each viewer’s perceptions of the world.