07/16/2025
In this series of images, “Coastal Correspondence”, I explore the relationship between the people of Navarre, Florida, and the objects that represent them. Arranged in a typology, the objects transform from everyday roadside objects to monuments of personal and environmental identity. Living on the coast, I often drive by these sentinels too quickly to appreciate them. Landmarks of both distance and time’s passage, they are shaped not only by their owners’ personalities but by nature itself.
My approach here is to be as consistent as possible, aiming to take the images in similar lighting, from a similar distance, and from a similar position. By representing them as a grid instead of a series of photographs, my intent is to rid them of their mundane function and show them as a collective work of art curated by my community, inviting the viewer to inspect each one in detail. It’s this form that best invites the user to see the details and changes in each one, allowing their eyes to go back and forth between them.
This body of work is dedicated to the people who make this place feel like home for so many of us locals. It’s a conversation that defines Florida’s defiance in the face of nature’s corrosive beauty. It’s a self-portrait in a way, a beautifully quiet coastal correspondence.
