These images--fragments of familiar-yet-strange institutional spaces--are part of a series that questions the notion of the absent subject. My work looks at the underlying meaning within institutional interiors (carpeted floors, tiled walls, upholstered seating, terrazzo-covered corridors). This meaning is amplified by selectively focusing on the everyday surfaces that cover these man-made environments or “containers.” On the surface, these empty containers may appear to be neutral. After a closer look, however, they become anything but neutral. Formally, I treat my subjects as interior landscapes to help viewers read themselves into the architecture. By making the familiar into something unfamiliar, I shift the viewers’ attention away from specific places and towards their own memories. I trigger the memory of these non-places by contemplating moments in which nothing can really be said to have happened and by capturing--not the instant or “decisive moment”--but rather the duration of the commonplace.