One Million Edits

The following is my artist statement for onemillionedits.art I keep coming back to what it means to be part of something other people can change. I mostly think of this in relation to communities and social interactions, but a shared canvas becomes an interesting way to explore that. You can claim a space, put something of yourself into it, and feel attached to what you’ve made there. It can feel like home. Someone else might relate to that and want to build on it, or see it as a place for something they want to do differently. As a photographer there’s something compelling to me about taking a moment from an ongoing situation and permanently locking it. As viewers of photographs we rarely know what happened before or after, and have to imagine how those stories unfolded. We know the images are ephemeral. I’ve explored this idea of change and permanence in my work before, and it’s something I keep returning to. With One Million Edits, the cost of each edit adds friction to the…