I have photographed in Clover Nursing Home for the past year, spending most of that time getting to know the people who live there. Many of them have welcomed me into their homes and I have tried to photograph what I see with an open and sympathetic eye. It is very important for me to develop reciprocal relationships with the residents; I return again and again and I give them copies of the photographs that I take. My photographs focus on the objects that people choose to bring with them, to what may be the last room they will ever live in. Some of these objects are used practically while others are commemorative possessions. I focus on the mundane in order to find meanings suggested by these everyday objects that are often overlooked. I want to honor the feelings that these objects evoke and I see them as portraits of their owners.
