I photographed the A-Frame Breakfast series for my second shooting assignment in Photo III. In this series I built upon the theme of place from the first assignment and incorporated elements of nostalgia, tradition, and ritual.
This past weekend I went up to my family’s weekend house in upstate New York for the first time in several months. We call the house an ‘A-Frame’ because the roof mimics the shape of the letter A. On Friday night my mom mentioned that she would make pancakes for breakfast in the morning, and I was immediately hit with feelings of sentimentality from my childhood.
Up until the beginning of high school, my family and I would drive to upstate New York almost every weekend. In the winter I remember waking up early to the smell of bacon and eggs, muffins, or pancakes before getting dressed to go skiing. It was a weekly ritual, one that I wished to relive and chronicle in the present.
This series begins with an image of an oven mitt which says ‘welcome’ to establish a homely feeling, before proceeding through the process of my mom brewing coffee, assembling the ingredients for pancakes, and making them on the stove.