This intensely personal project was begun after losing five friends in a seven-month period last year, one suddenly, the others after long illnesses. Although I thought I was sad but okay, I realized over the subsequent summer that their deaths affected every aspect of my life as I found myself photographing light coming through the windows of my home and touching everyday objects.

My perceptions became sensitized to light coming through windows and skylights, onto stairs, and baskets, through vases. Light became as much about memory and grief as what it illuminated.

I realized that because of the interposition of emotion, the human eye sees differently from the camera lens, and that light can become subject matter in and of itself while it references emotions inspired by associations with everyday objects and scenes.