"Portraits of People We Will Never Meet" is a collection of over 200 portraits executed in the fragile and unpredictable medium of watercolor. While interested in both identity and representation, I was mostly concerned with the themes of transience, loss, and longing. Ultimately, these portraits are about the impossibility of truly knowing and/or representing a person intimately and accurately.

After completing the portraits of people I did not know and would never meet, these minute portraits were scattered, for others to chance upon throughout Chicago, bearing the inscription: "This is a portrait of a person you will never meet."