FLOHAUS Gallery: A Home Together

About the Work

Two years ago my roommate rescued a cat, brought her home, and named her Apricot. I have become far more attached to her than I expected. She has warmed my heart, and documenting her life has become a main joy of my own. I love taking photos of her and sending them to my roommate, and I love receiving photos of her in return. This has become an ongoing thing that we do.

However, shortly before a vacation last year I found a surveillance camera that had been discarded on a junk shelf, and when my immediate thought was “awesome, now I can watch Apricot when she goes into my room while I am out of town,” it dawned on me that maybe this had gotten out of hand. At what point does wanting to look at a cute cat stop being affectionate and start being kind of strange? Is it weird that so many of the texts between my roommate and I are photos of Apricot, and confessions that we miss her? I don't know. I should probably get a life.

These works document the digital ephemera of that dynamic.

Look at Her (2025) is the single-channel video: the photos, the texts, the low-grade surveillance, and the blurry line between wanting to look at something you love and just wanting to watch it.

At FLOHAUS

Look at Her showed as part of A Home Together, a group exhibition at FLOHAUS Gallery in New York.