My background is originally in theater—I worked for many years as an actor and producer—and I cannot speak about my current practice without discussing my past history. What makes theater special to me is the communion between the audience and the performer. It is a relationship born of the fundamental fact that the audience member breathes the same air as the performer, shares the same space. People in their seats are just as integral to the completion of a theatrical ritual as the people on stage: a performance is created through the audience’s watching. In my photography I seek to recreate that relationship with the audience. Whereas a playwright’s conversation with an audience is mediated by the actors who speak the text, my conversation with my audience is mediated by the images I create. To that end, materiality is also incredibly central to my work: my prints are made by hand and made to be handled. The images I create are physical objects, with texture and weight; I don’t like them under glass. I want people to be able to touch what I’ve made. To look at how a print changes under different lights, at different distances. It’s why making reproducible art is so important: these are objects that are meant to wear and tear. I want people to have personal, individual, intimate relationships with what I make, just how each audience member has their own personal experience of a play.