For this project I was inspired by Kim Sooja's 'A Needle Woman' project. In this series the artist (or model) is always in the frame of the image with her back to the viewer. She is presented in different places all over the world but she is always the same.
I wanted to create a series of photos with me in the frame, always dressed the same in an outside place I usually enjoy going to. I chose Reid Park because I live fairly close and enjoy spending time there. Right now I am going through my two year 'removal of conditions' period in immigration status. This means I have to collect evidence that my husband and I are a real married couple with intertwined lives and intend to stay together. It's very stressful trying to gather enough evidence to avoid suspicion and I'm finding it hard to enjoy life at the moment without thinking about it. Even when we go out walking in the park it's on my mind and that's what made me think of this project. I am in these places but I am not interacting with them. Sooja's work is a protest against the anonymity of sweatshop workers (as I see it) and globalization. This project is my way of protesting the bureaucracy of immigration and the way it affects my life. In this project I wanted to convey a lack of something, it's personal to me (immigration story) but I want the casual viewer to get a sense of emptiness/death/searching from the images.
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