BARRACUDA

In 2002, I was a fourteen-year-old high school freshman with overly plucked eyebrows, a mouth full of braces, and some obsessive behaviors revolving around a popular boy band and an unsuspecting upper class-man. This project manifested as an installation and reconstruction of my bedroom and journal from that time period: an homage to those awkward and uncomfortable teenage years. I give my younger self credit for spending the time and energy to document her life. Without her feverish journal entries, photographs and hand drawn maps depicting how her *NSYNC posters fit together, and desire to hold onto the memorabilia from her youth, this installation project would not have been possible.

The following images are a combination of archival photos from my teenage bedroom, scans from my teenage journal, objects from my teenage years, and photographs of the installation that brought all the pieces back together twenty-three years later. Copies of the zine I produced in conjunction with the installation can be purchased here.