Between 2011 and 2014, I hitch-hiked along a number of lines across Europe and the USA, and created a series of video works based on these journeys. I filmed the roadsides and gas stations where I waited for lifts and wrote down stories from the people that would eventually pick me up. Hitch-hiking offers a particular kind of intimacy. You share an enclosed space with a stranger, in which a mutual degree of trust is necessary. People often feel safe to share things that they may not share with others, since they are unlikely to see you again. You sit side by side in a bubble of unplanned togetherness, rarely making eye contact whilst the landscape unfolds through the windscreen.

The films are montages of places between somewhere and somewhere, stopping-off points between A and B, narrated by the stories of the people who passed through. I was interested in exploring the relationships between the landscapes I found myself in and how those places embodied the narratives of all the people that passed through. The narratives of a transit route are always in flux.

I am both an observer and a participant in this narrative. I am the only constant character, and a vessel both for the stories of other people as well as my own. The stories are personal and intimate, … dreams fantasies and desires