There I was, laying on the floor of my bedroom, looking up at my ceiling as the light retreated from the pools it had made on my carpet back out into the sky. Night was coming, and the day had passed by like it had yesterday and the day before and the week before that—slowly, and without consequence. I had spent most of my time in quarantine just like that—letting the days pass over me like a blanket being pulled over and off of me, again and again.
One night, I went out with my camera and started photographing houses in hopes that it would break up my monotonous days. So there it began—the start of my new quarantine routine. Every night, almost without fail, I went out and photographed the houses and structures in my family's neighborhood, walking in the same cyclical patterns. Somehow I found something new to photograph every night. After I’d walk for a couple of hours, I’d sit in my garage, door open, cicadas buzzing—and develop the film so that I could scan it in the morning and witness what my camera was seeing that I could not.
I’ve always hated walking—I’ll drive or take the subway to avoid having to, but somehow one of the things I disliked the most became second nature when I was doing it while also doing something I loved. Once I started walking, I didn’t stop. I started in the driveway of my parents house, made countless orbits around the same cul-de-sac for months, walked further and found that I just kept going.
To date, this project is one long continuous walk I’ve been on for years. I don't know why these places that I’ve stumbled upon and photographed are so meaningful to me and why they’ve been calling to me yet, but a friend once told me that meaning comes from doing what feels right, and when I was at the lowest point in my life, this is what felt right, and still does.
Above is a gallery of the selected images from the official project. If you scroll further, you’ll find the scans of the 140 page book I made by hand that outlines the full journey of this project starting in 2020.
You can also find all of my current night work here.
There Is Something To Be Said
About The Night
