Worn contemplates the presence and absence of someone through images of clothing that bear signs of age and use. A hole in a piece of fabric can vividly mark a moment in history or recall passing time. A loose thread can trigger the memory of a specific experience relating to the person who wore the garment. Clothes are very intimate objects that have direct contact with a body and can conform to the physical body they cover. Clothes can thin, fade and deteriorate or endure generations. Much like a photographic portrait, clothes represent tangible traces of an individual, which evoke a person's characteristic movements and personality. The arrangement and positioning of the objects, twisted, draped over a chair, reverentially folded, allude to the person who filled the clothes and to the one who is left behind. Touching an article of clothing that was worn by a particular person can be a precious experience that resurrects his or her smell, warmth and very existence.

The photographs from this project were made from wet-collodion glass negatives. Collodion on glass was invented in 1851 and popular throughout the 1850s and 1860s. The glass plate remains wet during exposure, allowing for spontaneous movement of chemicals on the surface of the plate. The process imparts many imperfections in the final image. Chemical markings combined with areas of both extreme sharpness and soft focus from shallow depth of field mimic memory, in all its fluidity and fragments.