Since the abandonment of performance theaters in Georgia by cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, they are one of the businesses bereft of value due to their ritualistic large gatherings for performance arts. Now what resides is an accumulation of props, dim lighting, and illusions of inhabited spaces. The theatre is and always has been a habitat of the life it provides and has roots and characteristics deeper than that of its structure. In this photographic series which spans the entirety of Georgia performance theaters, an assertion of unity appears within them as you cannot figure what has happened except that these spaces are subject to deprivation and a withdrawal of their people.

With strobe and available lighting of leftover stage sets, empty rooms, dusted tabletops, unused restrooms, and backstage objects strewn about acting as still lives the photographer attempts to create the harmony and connected ness to the integrity of these spaces.  Like systems of mechanics, energy passes through each theater after an initial catalyst sets them in motion. Yet, even after that catalyst is gone, in this narrative, these spaces circulate that energy, even if dim. There is still life yet found on stage sets, back stages, corridors, lighting boxes, green rooms and storage rooms all reacting to each other in flux.