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This amount of time

It's been 10 years since i began the Self-Surveillance project, and a lot has happened in the meantime... a lot in the work (both major and minor), personally two multi-state home moves, and plenty more.

I want to reflect on the project as i conceived it, as it has developed and as it is now. It's taken some twists and turns, developing offshoots and tangents that have been very fruitful in some cases. One of the main aspects i want to think about from the beginning (and even before i created the first proper SS work in 2013-14) is that in the initial conception this project was meant to be about my family. At that time i was still strongly motivated by a desire to make work that was not about myself and my identity, but my family was another story and another place (or places). The work has developed largely in this way, and i've been able to explore areas very unfamiliar to me.

I don't think this work is by any means done or exhausted, but as usual it's hard for me to locate where i am with it; by this i mean both the stage the project is currently in, and also where "I" am "in it". While i still think the latter aspect is of lesser importance, i am making progress with it, and this has importance in plotting the relationship connections which have meaning and relevance for the work. One thing that has animated and motivated my directions with the work has been the contradictions that i see in my family, particularly across different branches, and how they seem (solely from my perspective) to have coalesced into how i have formed.

I think most people, in being able to look at parts of their family going back generations (as I am very fortunate to be able), would find some contradiction or paradox, something that is difficult to rectify either personally or historically. For my work, i hope to explore these contradictions and not to flatten them, to see the complexities, particularly because they are both personal and historical (and i hope i'm being successful at this). Maybe because of this, i think there could be relevance for the future, in the difficult labyrinth we have to navigate in order to get there.

Now, i am preparing new work for a solo show, and this will be my first installation work in 5 years. I'm hoping that the development of this work for the SS project will reflect a lot of what has come before, and also an evolution into new areas of possibility. As i have experienced in the past with making installation work, this can go far in suggesting new ways of working, methods and relationships with the audience. I hope that this will be the case again in the next few months. While i do hope that at the center this current work reflects the place from which it has developed, and that in some ways it carries (and moves me) forward, i also hope that the work can be something, or somehow, good in the world.

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This is Crown Hill, I've shared pictures of this neighborhood in the past because it's my favorite neighborhood in the city! Most of these houses were build around 1850 and many are on the National Register of Historic Places.