This image is from a new series exploring themes of object-ness in photography. Photographs themselves become objects through mass production whether as personal mementos or printed on commercial objects like labels, clothing and packaging. The thing being photographed is also often reduced to an object, the fuel for terms like ‘sex object’. How do photographs influence our objectification of the world around us? I use the genre of still life in new ways to layer photographs as things, one contained inside another. Which photo is more real? Which one is more alive, which one more still?