Foreclosures

A series depicting foreclosed homes in New Haven, Connecticut. Volatile shifts in the housing market continue to disproportionately affect a shrinking middle class, the working class, and other disadvantaged populations. This suite of work records the fragility of home ownership, and questions who benefits from financial practices and protections in the United States.

For building materials, I use security patterns found inside envelopes from bank and credit card statements, representations of American currency, stocks, bonds, barcodes, maps of Connecticut, and other financial ephemera. The aesthetic elements modeled from these media create eerily familiar associations to documents assuming monetary value and legal importance.

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