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This collection of images stands as a personal testament to the sheer banality of our everyday lives, and the small but significant moments of meaning-making that happen within and between the objects with which we surround ourselves. Here, things move beyond the realm of mere objects and closer towards an understanding of domestic intricacies and eccentricities as communicative media extensions of our bodies, plausible and potential sites of identity (de)(re)construction. Through interactions with the mundane trivialities that come to encompass our lives, we can re-situate our relationships to things, stuff, junk, homes, yards, lives, each other, by honoring new types of everyday-life knowledge that grows among these seemingly mundane yet profoundly impactful experiences of simply living.



The hope for this work is an eventual digital, interactive platform in which viewers move away from their traditionally normative and passive roles as ‘objective observers’, and instead towards senses of shifting selves as mixers, producers, and users. We already exist in personal realities of subjective perceptions, but if we continue to ignore our roles in the creation and dissemination of meaning and cultural understandings, we will continue to passively resist the importance of, well, everything. Learning and constantly adjusting to that understanding requires sensorial experience through multiple modalities of reception and interaction. Through both the tactility of your everyday and the experience of this work coupled with an environment for personal, artistic creation, users may inspire their own forms of everyday knowing.



These photographs honor the knowledge gained from liking looking, and just plain living.