Transient Places, Future Nostalgia traces the shifting edges of Morehead City, North Carolina, through photographs of buildings in various stages of demolition. These are spaces caught between presence and absence, where memory clings to what’s being erased. This work is about watching places disappear slowly, and realizing they were already halfway gone when I found them.
Some of these places were already falling apart when I found them. Others just felt like they were.
I started thinking of demolition not just as destruction, but as a kind of marker for the in-between moment where a place is still almost there, holding on a little longer.
There’s a certain kind of quiet that shows up in a place that once was.
It’s not absence, exactly, it’s more like something hanging in the air. It’s like the place is still trying to remember what it used to be.
