I am attracted by the malleable qualities of fiction, and have been making reference to various examples within the Bildungsroman genre, a novel which denotes the development of the protagonist. The Bildungsroman tells the tale of a characters growth within their world and ultimately within themselves.  The novels chosen, fall into the viewer’s collective consciousness and became the inspiration for the photoraphic series.

The stories are individual ones, however the individual story is inseparable from the collective one.  The story of a need for identity, of adolescence, of transforming.  Everyone projects an image of themselves, but rarely does it in accord with others’ perceptions.  Everyone carries memories from the past, but often they are selective distortions of reality.  Everyone has a story to tell, but usually it is closer to fiction than fact.