One of my earliest memories is the feeling of a Sunday afternoon in my house: sunlight spilling in over the kitchen table while a ballad from the 70s played from the TV’s Music Choice Channel; the kitchen counter cluttered with various colorful brands of canned crushed tomatoes as my dad started the pot of Sunday Sauce. Every memory of Sunday in my house has that warm tone to it. 

Around The Table was shot digitally on a Sunday in my home on Long Island, New York. I documented the entire process of Sunday Sauce– from the crack of the first can of tomatoes to the scrapemarks of the pasta bowl. The physical presentation of the work is designed to give the viewer a sense of familial closeness, as if they could pull up a chair and enter the moments I remember so vividly from my childhood.

Around The Table is a celebration of connection– specifically, the kind that forms between people when sat together around the table. Modern-day moments, collaged atop the table, are accompanied by vernacular archives spanning two generations, contextualizing the present day and placing it on our family timeline. While honoring this tradition, Around The Table serves as a grounding reminder that no matter how far life takes me, there’s always a seat saved at the table.