Shoeboxes & Bars


Shoeboxes & Bars
New York, New York
2025

Status : Concluded
Shoeboxes & Bars was created between February and April of 2025 during a period in which I began to change my social life drastically. I began forming new friendships as well as finding a place of belonging, all while creating a synchronous string of memories within these months. This project reflects my growth throughout college

These memories move between spaces and time in which may otherwise be forgotten; the creation of new friendships and spaces, a previous dynamic of relationships or locations that no longer coexist and the oragin of everything in between these two ends. At the time, I was not photographinh these nights out with the intention of preserving them, especially for a project. Looking back, however, the images have become a record of a specific time period in my life as well as the people who occupied it. 

Using the precence of time, ths project ultimately is about the way memories attatch itself to people, places, and objects that offer both representation and insight into the person I was during this period of time. 

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