AMANDA BOONE

Born out of a major creative block that I ran into during the summer of 2020, this project, one mostly consisting of self-portraiture, explores the feeling of uncertainty I’ve been faced with about my general life direction and who I am as a person. This is something I’ve been questioning for many years now. I struggle with identifying my own interests, personality traits, and goals in life, and if asked to talk about myself in any way, I feel like I have nothing to say, as if I don’t even know myself. This feeling suddenly worsened when I found myself wanting to do anything other than photography, the thing I had majored in for the specific reason that it was something I once felt I could make a career out of without ever tiring of it. Rather than avoiding the subject, I decided to channel these all-consuming thoughts into a photography project.   
The photographs in this project that are not self-portraits exist to add further context to the subject of myself in a way that the portraits do not, while maintaining the same general tone and aesthetic as the rest of the images. A large majority of the images were taken in my grandparent’s house, which has always been a second home to me even as my mom and I moved houses frequently, and as a result the house holds of memories and personal artifacts that have accumulated throughout the years.