While art history has undoubtedly infused me with a passion for Romanticism that’s found its way into my photography through a faux-painterly style, its main influence has always been on my subject and perspective. A view of the World through a nostalgic but skeptical lens as overwhelmed my recent work; and as Covid-19 has taken over all of our lives, the concept of Nostalgia - besides becoming altogether too present - has garnered an entirely more melancholic effect. We long for parts of our past - freedoms we remember feeling and an innocence we may never have really had. For me the early months, dominated by quarantine and isolation, brought an unexpected return of a uniquely childhood perspectives towards the everyday. As I relearned to look at my confining surroundings in new ways (in an effort I’ll admit to not go mad), I found ways to transform what had become ordinary around me into unrealities. In something of a happy accident, I realized that this idea of a forced return to a childlike mindset that had begun to dominate my quarantine work had already been embedded in my photography long before the pandemic. These heightened views of semi-fabricated pasts and surreal fantasies that I had been doing for years, have always tried to recall the way in which we once saw our lives and the stories we heard when we were young. Hopefully they can help us revisit them now.