• This Dream Scares Me But I Know It's Normal (2020-)
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  • Family Fictions (2016-)
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  • I See You (2007-2012)
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  • Then/Now (2002-2005)
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  • C.V.
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  • Connect

 

Work Statement

In our project, This Dream Scares Me But I Know It’s Normal, we’ve been sleuthing and acquiring anonymous Polaroids circa 1960-2000. Discarded photo albums, shoeboxes packed with forgotten snapshots; images lost beneath decades of clutter. Years ago, our subjects showed up for a Christmas party, a romantic encounter, 10th grade geometry. Responding to cues from what we perceive in these Polaroids, we add poignant and humorous phrases from our personal journals and recent conversations – inner thoughts we imagine the individuals and their observers may be thinking and feeling.

Friends from childhood, we grew up a block apart from each other – simultaneously following and deciphering the codes of preppy suburbia. Irony and sarcasm were our preferred secret language – this is how we buffered our tender, emerging identities against what we perceived as the winds of deadly conformity. Looking in the rear view mirror as middle-aged adults, we aim to give an empathic and humorous voice to our subjects, just as we wished someone in the outside world would have validated us.

For Gen X kids, the Polaroid SX-70 was a magical device, producing an on-the-spot tangible photo which recorded a heartbeat of time. With the push of a red button and a synchronous buzz, the moment became evidence. In today’s digital universe, we remain transfixed by the Polaroid camera’s clever design and the vibrant memory-object it leaves behind.


If I Gave A Damn About Any Of This

If I Gave A Damn About Any Of This

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This Dream Scares Me But I Know It's Normal

This Dream Scares Me But I Know It's Normal

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You Can't Just Sit Around Feeling Sorry For Yourself

You Can't Just Sit Around Feeling Sorry For Yourself

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People In California Are Nicer

People In California Are Nicer

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Everything's So Placid No One Would've Known

Everything's So Placid No One Would've Known

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I Hide Things From Myself

I Hide Things From Myself

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Is There No End To All This Happiness?

Is There No End To All This Happiness?

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This Meaningless Obsession

This Meaningless Obsession

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Someone Had To Be Responsible

Someone Had To Be Responsible

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The Meanings Reveal Themselves

The Meanings Reveal Themselves

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I Could Really Go For Him

I Could Really Go For Him

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Let's Not Examine How Perfect Things Are

Let's Not Examine How Perfect Things Are

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There Are Only So Many Feelings In The World

There Are Only So Many Feelings In The World

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