(2025-present)

Let Me Hold You asks us to think about our relationship to photographs-as-objects and how these connections are formed through the act of touching. Coming from the generation who experienced the shift between analog and digital imaging, I have witnessed how the appreciation of physical photographs has dwindled over time. By following the history of photography’s metamorphosis, personal negatives are digitally manipulated into crumpled pieces of paper, printed, and cut out to establish that photographs can be real objects. This process forces viewers to not only question the visual information, but also what happened to the physical object. Operating as a performative index, these pieces emphasize how the physical traces left by holding photographs over time reveal the emotional relationship between the image and object.