These composite photographic images meditate on my and my family’s quotidian experience during the year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each image is the result of two superimposed digital photographs: one photograph taken inside a room of the house I share with my wife and children, and another taken on one of the many outdoor day trips made to various locals – Halibut Point in Gloucester, Battle Road Trail in Concord, the Greenway Loop in Belmont, Mt. Auburn Cemetery – during the pandemic. The images are dialogical, but they complicate the binaries that attribute confinement/claustrophobia to interior spaces and openness/freedom to the “great outdoors.” The photographs are both domestic still lives and outdoor landscapes that capture in the interplay of interior and exterior scenes some of the feelings occasioned during a time of government stay-at-home advisories and remote learning and work. As combination prints, the images speak to the multiple connotations of the word “retreat.”
