Amman Street Chairs is a photography series I developed while living in Amman, Jordan. The photos were taken throughout the years 2012 - 2017 on walks throughout the city.

For me, Amman’s street chairs each seem to tell an individual story; some have seen decades of home life and are getting a second wind through reupholstery, some seem to live permanently on a side walk and serve as a refuge point for tired passers-by, some look forgotten completely. This project was inspired by French anthropologist Bruno Latour’s research Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects too Have Agency. These chairs seem to have some level of agency within the streets in which they live, and those stories – real or imagined – played out very vividly in my mind and throughout this project.

This series was exhibited in New Mexico at Harwood Art Center’s Emerging Artists of New Mexico exhibition in July 2018.