Artist Statement
Hotchkiss (2022-) uses the natural world as a means of visualizing isolation, transition, and the fears of coming into adulthood. In photographing real places in order to create a larger fictionalized landscape, Hotchkiss aims to reveal the dichotomy between comfort and destabilization. Along with the use of the visual codes of myth making, metaphor, atmosphere, and phenomena, the external world begins to represent the artists internal landscape challenging the viewer’s perceptions of place, home, and the natural world.
