| Description |
This photograph depicts three pieces displayed in the 2024 exhibition "Selfographies". The first image is of the snow covered mountains, their peaks obscured by dense clouds and foothills fully blocked by a tall white fence. Several construction pin flags dot the heavy snow fall. The second shows two townhouses under construction, reduced to their general silhouette because of white plastic sheets wrapped around them. The final image is tightly cropped on the corner of a neighborhood. The fencing in the foreground and expanse of repetitive housing behind it create a feeling of seperation. The viewer is isolated on the other side of the fence with the melting, dirty piles of snow. / "Utah's housing shortage is expected to worsen to an estimated gap of 37,000 units in 2024. This factor is among several contributing to the least affordable housing market in state history. While this crisis is not unique to Utah, I am drawn to the visual patterns of new housing construction taking place here in response to that shortage. Through the documentation of rapid, insatiable suburban sprawl reaching out into the desert, I question the American ideal of property ownership and its corresponding relationship with community development, or lack thereof." |
