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Since becoming a parent, my fears have taken on a new dimension. They are like lucid dreams about the traumas and enigmas of childhood that end before any climax can define them.

With this series, I am looking to refract these anxieties in sequential story pieces that look to early cinema, specifically Victorian “Child Pictures,” Dare Wright’s Lonely Doll books, and fairy tales. Each piece involves the same doll posed in a sequence of images, like found segments of a fuller, lost story. I use a medium format Holga camera for the out-of-time quality of the images it produces. The doll acts as a surrogate for the child in the story, and perhaps also acts as talisman to receive these anxieties, like traditional worry dolls might.