I collect the stories of the everyday person. The collections represent an array of people, cast from all of us. I like the idea of spontaneously entering someone’s life for a moment, and asking them to tell me something very intimate. Because of the honesty one can have with a stranger, a kind of truthful exchange happens, and then they’re gone. There is an electricity that occurs. People want to tell their story.
As an artist and 18-year resident of San Francisco, I was curious to discover if residents are haunted, as I am, by places and memories as they walk down the street. As the development in the city has exploded and certain streets are hardly recognizable. I began to wonder how San Franciscans, who love their city dearly, were feeling about the changing landscape.