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"Using the tool of photography I am interested in examining the borders between reality and fiction. I often photograph real-life situations that pose questions regarding the whereabouts of location and authenticity. With my series Still Lives, this is also the case.

Still Lives has been and continues to be an examination of the way animals are represented within the man-made and constructed organic worlds of the natural history museum. I am concerned with how the fabricated environments of the diorama are viewed as stil moments of a animal's life while in their natural habitat.

Invariably, the viewer connects with the animal and their habitat before realizing the fabrication of their environment. As a result, I am curious about the way stories and narratives tend to form around the images when the truth of their origins is not the first thing the viewer is aware of. The photographs attempt to hold onto the integrity of the animal's original life and their (constructed) habitat by not referencing the structure of the diorama itself, yet at the same time there is an impossibility to each image that fictionalizes the images themselves."

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