The Artist's Bedroom

In my career as a photographer, I have photographed hundreds of abandoned homes, both in America and around the world. My photography focuses on house interiors as well as exteriors shot on film. My work features found objects, and remnants of past family's lives. Often colorful, unusual, and surreal, these photographs include items that may be considered bizarre or unsettling. It is my desire to show a sense of mystery, by using nostalgia to trigger memories and evoke emotion. The viewer may question one's own life, mortality, and where we and our things end up in the future. By shining a light into these dark spaces it can be like stepping into another time or dimension. They reveal a kind of lost dream world. In this particular abandoned home in France sits decades of artwork by a renowned artist. All of this artwork remains, stacked and filled in every room. However, it is his bedroom that is the most bewildering. With a mannequin on the bed, photographs of the artist, and works by famous artists scattered about, it is a completely surreal scene. In life he was an artist, and in death his home remains a complete work of art.