I began this project thinking that I was making a series of photos on the overwhelming feeling of being in commercial spaces – trying to capture a sense of the overstimulation of visual information. At the time I hadn’t heard the term “neurodivergent” and despite multiple diagnoses in early childhood, I never knew that it impacted the way I process visual information. About a decade after starting the series, I learned that my experience was unique, and I came to understand these photographs differently.

Much like the Temples series, these images are produced in a near-trance state, where I let intuition take the lead. While it takes longer for me to distinguish between different facets of reflections and refractions, operating quickly and on instinct allows me to capture the often surreal and abstract experience of walking through these spaces.

I was initially inspired by several photos of Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, and Huger Foote and would later find inspiration from the work of Saul Leiter. Each of these photographers worked intuitively to capture a sense of the visual density of urban spaces.