The work included in my MFA thesis exhibition entitled American Standard examines our role as narrative-based individuals within the American culture. In this current body of work I use the photographic image as a director uses the medium of film (moving image). Location scouting, casting, lighting, directing, editing, and processing all become intricate parts of the work, all to lead to a single solitary frozen moment in time that I believe creates a story. Story as created not in a fictional sense, but more in the vein of creative non-fiction, as the stories I tell come from a personal past. I ask the viewer to examine each photographic image, and examine its narrative fidelity. I would like the viewer to begin to become aware of their inherent attraction to narrative and that which unfolds because of that attraction
