House to House is a book of photographs and stories about my mother, her family and the eight houses she moved into and out of – all within the small town of Spencer, Indiana. None of the moves represented an improvement. These events took place over two decades beginning in 1925 and ending in the late 1940s.

For this project, I returned to the town of Spencer and located the houses and apartments that my family lived in. They range from a farmhouse, now abandoned and built by my grandfather, to an empty apartment over a pool hall on the town square. I photographed each house and various objects that belonged to my family during that time period -- a doll, a wool coat, a dress.  I arranged them within the environments of the houses, like characters in a story.

Each photograph carries a text that evokes personal legends and memories about living in that house, ranging from the food that my grandmother cooked and the relatives that came and went to white spiders and the effects of mental illness. Every family has its own histories, mythologies and irealities. House to House is the story of my family’s restless efforts to create a home.

This work was featured in solo exhibits at Juniata College Museum of Art as well as Photoworks at Glen Echo National Park in Maryland.

Limited edition, each copy is signed by the artist.

Printing by Edition One

Design: Isaac Burton

Price includes shipping to the continental US.

Softcover, 58 pages.