Cringe series, 2010 

    In 2009, my lover left for ten months to work over-winter in the Admunsen-Scott station at the South Pole. We maintained contact via phone conversations over a slow satellite connection, pausing after every statement for a few seconds to allow the other to speak. We talked everyday, sometimes for hours, until the connection crackled and sputtered away when the satellite set over the horizon.  

   More and more, as time went by, I'd find myself remembering with horror some embarrassing thing I'd said. Usually it was some inconsequential nonsense which no one else would find shameful, but I'd flinch and curse myself. By the time this was happening multiple times in a day, I decided to use this arrestingly uncomfortable experience to photograph myself in this arbitrarily self-critical state.  

   The series is a work in progress, the titles here may change. The full set will be one single edition of 13 C-prints, 20" x 30", face-mounted to acrylic.