To create an ongoing archive of her life, Louise Ingalls Sturges employs painting, quilting, collage, digital and analogue photography and has amassed a collection of daily detritus thick with old cigarette packs, love letters, dream catchers and lipstick stained cotton pads. At the heart of her work, she compulsively photographs those intangible moments that would otherwise be lost to memory. Her methodology is dependent on gathering and preserving the evidence of her life as if it’s significance would be lost without a physical record. The power of her photography is lead by an uncanny understanding of American iconography. She documents her friends, lovers, family and surrounding social landscape in an effort to preserve the now, straddling both the joys of youth and responsibility of adulthood. With a lingering sense of melancholy, Sturges picks up the subtle beauty of an instant and asks the viewer to dwell on the ordinary. It is through these acts of self-preservation that Sturges transforms the viewer into a confidant. Inviting us to be a companion as she bears witness to an ever-changing generation in search of the real.