I’m excited to share that I’m an artist in residence at The Pharmacy Museum. It’s relieving to know that years of concepts, dormant in my journals, will finally live.
The history in this 200 year old building constructed less than thirty years after the Great Fire of 1794 exists in an unusual continuum with our contemporary timeline made apparent during the recent pandemic. The Pharmacy Museum had its place during the many brutal Yellow Fever epidemics during the nineteenth century as well as providing treatments for venereal diseases that made New Orleans infamous.
On Monday I wandered its main room, alone with the lights off. This was an investigatory trip, intended to become acquainted with the space before beginning to schedule conceptual shoots throughout the building.
I’m looking forward to sharing more as the residency unfolds. For now, here are a few frames from Monday.
