In Auto Obscura, I turned my car into a camera obscura as a way to map my new world in
 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Relocating from Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2004 to attend graduate
 school was a huge shift both environmentally and socially. I left hometown roots and
 friends and family behind to enter largely unknown territory.

The car-camera helped ground me in my new surroundings as I spent hours making images in 
different locations all over Albuquerque. At the same time, these images addressed a sense
 of disorientation and dislocation, a longing for something missed.

The more I worked with the camera obscura, the more I felt the strangeness of 
experiencing the world through the filter of the car windows. While the windows give the
 sensation of letting the world inside the car, they in fact act as the translucent walls 
of a movable, isolated theater. The interior of the car becomes a site for introspection,
 memory, and feeling.

Incredible dramas, both mental and physical, occur in this tiny, 
movable stage.