The following photographs are made in Gore Place located in Waltham, Massachusetts. The preserved mansion of Christopher Gore, and the work place of my paternal ancestor, Robert Roberts. In 1827, Roberts published The House Servant's Directory, which became a commercially successful guide to white employers and their Black domestics. The text compiles observations on etiquette, behavior, and labor.

I photographed in Gore Place for the period of a year while intaking my ancestors language for the first time. The resulting photographs move between still life and self-portrait performance. This year was my first serious effort to understand my attraction to objects and the material traces of archives.