The pinhole photographs of my small felt sculptures series (“Soft/House”, "House/Boat", and "Army of Me") grew out of feeling homesick and displaced since moving to New York in 2006 from San Francisco. I used felt, silkscreen, and thread to create a series of sculptures of the house I grew up in in San Francisco. My choice of materials and techniques was initially inspired by work made by women in the 1970s during the Feminist Art movement. These small, soft, portable sculptures embody domestic themes while challenging the traditionally monolithic nature of sculpture in the western world. What began as a sculpture project turned into a photographic series when I started bringing one or more of the soft/houses with me wherever I went.

I use a 35mm pinhole camera that I built from a kit, and a 120mm plastic Diana camera. The pinhole/plastic lens aesthetic creates skewed perspectives which play with the scale of the sculptures, which are quite small. My photographs relate to themes of displacement and disconnect, as well as independence and adventure. Originally envisioned as documentation shot in varied locations, the photos quickly established themselves as a tool for creating a narrative by revealing the sculptures as characters themselves.