In March of 2020, at the onset of a global pandemic, my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. In trying to make sense of surreal change and the uncertainty of being between two places – my family home in Victoria and my apartment across the country in Toronto – I found myself examining fragility, memory, trace and loss. Through photographing my childhood home, familial moments and daily routine, I worked to depict the tension of this experience by contrasting mundane domestic scenes with sharp and visceral imagery.
Lump is a body of work that explores stream of consciousness through visual narrative in the emotional landscape of life disrupted. The project functioned as a distraction and confrontation in piecing together the fragments of an indescribable year.

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