This work defies photography's historical burden as a representational medium by accepting the chance, chaos, and failure inherent to traditional photographic processes.

Only Here Sometimes is a series of large format Polaroid portraits using expired Type 55 film in which the subject sits poised and ready for a photograph. However, due to the nature of the film, many of these images fail to work, leaving only a chemical residue on the film. This trace becomes the final image. The absence of the figure invites the viewer to accept uncertainty and loss as the subject of the work itself.

The desire to push photographic materials beyond their intended use has been a critical part of my practice. Using expired Polaroid film, I allow the negative to degrade over weeks, months, and sometimes years. Chemistry, dust, and time interact with the image, marking the negative, which degrades the information on the film. Much like flesh, the negatives change as they age. As the photograph reaches beyond the representational, the original intention of the portrait becomes secondary.