Park Nursing Home, Far Rockaway, NY, 2007
This series of images explores the convergence between domestic and institutional spaces. In one nursing home, I was struck by the efforts that have been made to make it feel less like an institution, but how ultimately the institutional and the personal coexist.The residents are intentionally not included in the photographs to evoke feelings of absence, time, comfort, discomfort and confinement. In each photograph, I aimed to tell a narrative by balancing the twin demands of comfort and efficiency. The photographs question failures within the institution. Without disturbing the scene, I looked to make images that represent the intimate and familiar interactions that occur within these spaces, yet are contradicted by the oppressiveness of the institutional setting.