ARTIST STATEMENT

Completions are celebrated, acknowledged, and remembered.

  • Graduation after completing all the requirements in college

  • Premier after a movie has been shot and edited

  • Architectural photo essays after completing construction

  • Publication after conducting research for more than a year

  • Runway after all the clothes for the season have been designed

Incompletions are hidden behind curtains, awaiting to become what they are yet not, yearning to see the light upon their maturation. Yet, the incomplete is just as important and worthy of our attention; it’s what gets us to where we want to end up. Why are we less inclined to share it, or make transparent? 

The incomplete are the incremental manifestation of a process: the sequential steps, the sweat and labor, the mindfulness, the nuances in choreography, the concomitant frustration and exhilaration, the learning from accumulating experience (whether it’s failing or succeeding)… 

My work is a celebration of all the in-betweens, the incompletions. By reflecting upon the characteristics of process, rather than documenting process itself, I aim to capture the beauty, energy, perplexity, ambiguity, and wonder inherent in processes.

I still remember feeling an intense sensation of jubilation when I saw our place being remodeled for the first time. Each day, I took my Kodak film camera and shot everything, from the pattern of the mortar for the tiling in my bathroom to the reframing of the cavity for the window. It was the honesty of the incomplete that I found intriguing. When I saw my developed film, it was evident that I had captured way more images of what the house was becoming more than what it had become. 

This sense of awe is what I aimed to capture in these prints, whether the process is one of craftsmanship or manufacture. In doing so, I hope to bring the audience to appreciating the five characteristics of process—on how things become—not only for how the transformation occurs but also for what the in-betweens communicate to us.

Gelatin silver prints 8 x 10 inches each, 10 prints total
Pictures taken in Paris, France / San Francisco, California / Mountain View, California