artist statement

This project has been a pretty incredible experience from the beginning, and I am grateful in the extreme to have been part of it. The person I was partnered with was wonderful to talk with, and enthusiastically allowed me to photograph her hands and use them for “Hard to Hold,” a piece that speaks to her emotional response to the work she’d been doing.

Our conversation also wandered into the concept of an active, and how there are ways to intervene in situations that seem dangerous to someone else that can be effective and safe.  We discussed the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, a woman who was killed on the street in New York while 38 people saw and did nothing. This led to us agreeing that all of us are deserving of care and protection, whether or not we know someone or they know us. “The Bystanders” is the result of that conversation – an attempt to change the narrative of what it means to be somewhere and see something that could possibly be stopped.