What Do You Go Home To?
(2012)

This body of work seeks to explore the role of sensory information, perception, and association in the creation of visualization rhetoric and suggested familiarity. By defining home as a mindset rather than a physical place and addressing it as the sum of its parts, the photographs identify and explore the individual elements that make up the term’s definition as it applies to this body of work and achieve intimacy through attention to detail. 

When viewers form an explanation as to what is occurring in an image, they bring aspects of themselves into the work such as personal experience, mood, psychological state, etc., allowing a connection to form between the audience and the creator. Along with sensory information, this relation enables the creator to suggest that familiarity and foster the “at home” mindset. Although the images are meant to seem familiar, they are often inconclusive and provide no definite resolution. This lack of specificity adds abstraction to the circumstances shown and aids in making the images more relatable for a wider range of audiences.

*Images will be on display October 26-November 6, 2012  in the second floor gallery of Owen Hall at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Contact dpbailey@unca.edu for more information.

Analogy 
(2011)

Separated by three years and eleven days, my sister and I have always been notably different people, and I have possessed an ongoing fascination with the mixed opinions we have received in comments addressing this fact. Throughout the three months in which the creation of this work took place, I sought to find and accentuate the likenesses and dissimilarities manifested within each of us as both siblings and as individuals, and to present that information visually in the form of an analogy.

Though I did provide several "side-by-side" comparisons based on physical appearance, the more significant elements of this project are contained within the images of the select people, places, and things that are most essential to us on a daily basis. The photographs represent only a small fraction of what I have learned and realized- about my sister and about myself- in the process of bringing this effort to fruition, much of which is too valuable and far more meaningful to me than anything I could even attempt to create.

*This collection is available for purchase in book form. Contact dpbailey@unca.edu for more information and pricing.

Transience
(2012- In progress)

lucid |ˈloōsid|
adjective
1 expressed clearly; easy to understand : a lucid account | write in a clear and lucid style. See note at sensible .
  •showing ability to think clearly, esp. in the intervals between periods of confusion or insanity : he has a few lucid      moments every now and then
  •Psychology (of a dream) experienced with the dreamer feeling awake, aware of dreaming, and able to control events consciously.

Tentative afterthoughts from a year in transition; moments and the spaces between dreaming and awake.
Images are thus far unedited.

At Night
(2012- In Progress)

Visual abstractions of sound.
The majority of these images were captured during commissioned shoots from concerts and other events.

The Desert
(Fall 2017- Present)

Photographing my new home so that I may get to know it.