Hammer

In 2015, I conducted a series of interviews with a retired police officer in their home just outside of Detroit, MI. The officer granted me permission to photograph their collections of objects and images they made and saved during their time on the police force. I extracted items such as personal photographs, found and confiscated images, paraphernalia, homemade weapons, newspaper clippings, tools, awards, signage, and garments. The images that follow are an effort to augment and make sense of a deeply personal and fragmented archive of complicated histories.

Years later, I selected specific items within the images I made from the collection to be sculpted as three demential glass objects as well as neon signs. A second physical archive became the result of the process.
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