Remain. 2025

Tucked away in the Santa Catalina Mountains during the 1900's was an operating federal honor camp. A secluded and quiet location to ensure prisoners would have no chance to escape. Now, people come here seeking the seclusion and stillness, but rather to enjoy it.

Remain is a series on the interaction between timelines at a place that was utilized for prison labor and is now a recreational experience. With my photographs I am showing the blur between the past and present through the remnants left throughout the site. The walls, foundations, and post’s coexist with the people who are camping, resting behind their tents, adjacent to their campfires, and underneath where they sleep on the ground. Standing in a spot that once held barracks, or a food hall, or staff housing, and contrasting it from the experiences happening in the present moment.

My project blurs these timelines, showing the landscape as it exists now and how it remains.