Tethered

— 43” x 28 Archival Pigment Prints —

Tethered is a life-long project that utilizes slices from everyday imagery to convey both the intimacy and diverse roles and relationships individuals play within a twenty-four-hour period of time. These roles can create contrasting moments ranging from the mundane to the chaotic. This body of work was originally created in 2011–2013 when the artist was in graduate school, a mother of two toddlers, and teaching adjunct at night at the local community college. Tethered, 5 years later, documents the same two-hour blocks of time throughout the day, however, today, the artist is now a tenured professor, mother of a 9 and 11 years old, and active artist in her studio.

Tethered is based on images photographed over a four-month period of time; documenting her life every 30 minutes as she performs her daily roles of artist, mother, professor, wife, and daughter. Utilizing her family as inspiration, she explores the multiplicity of identities we all experience as we navigate our daily roles. The performance of each individual role is constantly being encroached upon by the demands of the other roles, thus, creating the tethering effect.