(330) collection is a series of film stills capturing the fading memory of childhood

locations around my hometown, specifically ones I have shared with my mother who

has since passed. Since I have not lived in my small town of Medina Ohio for the past

four years, a lot has changed in my absence; my once rural town constantly morphing

into something so different yet still familiar. Even as I have grown older, I still find

fragments of my former self there, if it's in the cluttered horde of my family’s dark damp

garage, or in the old Dan’s Dog Diner, where my mother and I would split a milkshake

underneath the dusty neon lights. Furthermore I chose to shoot film to push the concept

of nostalgia; first because the media itself has throughout time held a sentimental

aspect to most of society and second to give the images themselves “a frozen out of

time” appearance. Nostalgia is so much more than reminiscing of a “warm fuzzy

feeling”. I strived to create a series of images that do not only show a glimpse of my

childhoods passed, but also specious to the viewers ,something that feels familiar but in

reality is not. Giving off a bittersweet sentiation, touching upon a mostly happy and

comforting feeling, but also with a tinge of sorrow, for that whatever we remember is in

some way or form is lost.