Personal Technologies looks at influence, and how outside images and systems settle into a person and shape identity and memory. Religion, country, media, and discipline can each give instructions on how to look and who to become, and over time a person can absorb these instructions until they start to feel like their own.

Those instructions often arrive through images and everyday objects, and the project uses both. Each sits inside larger structures of meaning and circulation. Within the assemblages, the two come together.

The images build on lived experience and look at the structures that shape it, and at how they affect the way we see ourselves and the way we are seen. Influence rarely comes from one direction, and it rarely announces itself. Personal Technologies questions how much of what a person takes in is understood, and how much is controlled.