Sign Language

• Photographer
  Margeaux Walter, United States

Sign Language is a series of photographs that collapse everyday
life into a form of abstraction. The images are about the
fragility of identity in relation to commercial products. Each
image is a domestic scene that is then deconstructed into
varying levels of chaos and order, obscuring the identities of the
figures within them. Focusing on excess, specifically the excess
of consumer culture, media and our constant need to capture
the moment, Sign Language reveals how these excesses
influence personal identity and expression. By camouflaging
families, couples and friends into consumer products, these
images explore how the idea of home is being altered through
the process of constant consumption.