Pacifica
California is a territory many of us feel we already know before we've ever set foot there, so thoroughly has it been shaped by film, photography, literature, and popular culture. It's this ground, so heavily charged with collective imagination, that first drew my gaze. With this series, I became interested in how people inhabit landscapes already loaded with imagination. Through color, light, and the vastness of the spaces, familiar places become subtly strange, suspended between reality and fiction. Pacifica depicts a territory built as much by images as by its geography: a space where everyday life takes on the atmosphere of a waking dream, and where the line between the real and the imagined grows progressively uncertain.
