During the last three years of the pandemic, uncertainty ran rampant through my mind. Since 2020, I’ve lived in three states and three different apartments. With the growing turmoil of my life, accompanied with the ever-looming threat of the Covid-19 virus, it felt like the end of the world at times. However there has been one constant in my life that I find myself appreciating day after day: the simplicity of sunlight filtering through my windows. Whether it be early morning, high noon or golden hour, I often find myself staring at the shapes and shadows left by sunbeams shining into my home.

Perhaps by chance or force of habit, I began to photograph the light as a way to keep a small piece of the familiar. This body of work is a photographic memoir told through film, iPhone and DSLR. All photographs happened alongside my life, a small token of appreciation nestled within the heaviness of the pandemic; there was no planning or careful configuration of compositions, all captured organically through the lens of whatever camera I had closest to me.

Windows Within began, unbeknownst to me, at the beginning of the pandemic during the height of “Tiger King” and bread baking. The body of work continued through my first cross country move and my second, when art no longer felt worth making and when the darkroom was just a memory I wondered if I’d ever experience again. 

In late 2021, I looked back through the hundreds of photographs I’d taken since the start of the pandemic. I was met with both the cool tones of isolation and the warmth of hope reflected through the captured images of sunlight streaming carelessly through my windows. With a curatorial lens, one of the many I’ve used throughout this season of life, I took this obsessive collection and turned it into the cohesive body of work before you now.

I have found that despite the ever changing status of this global pandemic and no matter where I am, light continues to stream through my windows. And for that I am grateful. 

Update: In March 2023, three years after life was turned upside down by a virus, the world has more or less gone back to “normal.” I’ve decided to end this series here to make room for new work. As life continues on, may the light always continue to stream through your windows.