2025—Present


2026.08.10-2026.08.15
Exhibited at Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT, USA

NFS is made inside more than one hundred estate sales across Washington State, part of an American practice in which private homes are opened to the public, usually after a death. Items collected over a lifetime become public inventory, offered to strangers who move through unknown homes, picking things up and turning them over as if the answer might be on the other side.

The project is about the human need to orient ourselves in a world that does not come already explained. At the estate sale, objects, photographs, and rooms remain, but the person who gave them coherence is gone. Visitors construct an understanding of someone they never knew from what has been left behind. These accounts are always partial, shaped by the histories, assumptions, and associations each person brings to the encounter. The estate sale makes visible something we do in all parts of our lives.

NFS uses straight photographs, assemblages, object typologies, and enlarged estate sale tags, each creating a different distance from the original site. Together, these modes follow the way objects and photographs shift as they move away from their original context. What begins as part of a life becomes a room, an estate sale, an image, a category, a price, or a sign. Each stage changes what can be known, projected, or assigned value.

Photography mirrors this same partial way of knowing. A photograph offers part of a world while leaving much of it outside the frame. In NFS, the viewer is placed in a similar position to the estate sale visitor, looking for clues, forming connections, and trying to make sense of what remains. The work does not attempt to recover the lives of the people who once owned these things. It asks why we construct these accounts at all, and why living without some sense of orientation is not something we can do.

Often, what people are looking for, especially at estate sales, is something that cannot be purchased.

Shortlisted at 2026 Athens Photo Festival Dummy Awards