I have always believed that houses hold the energy of the people who lived inside them — the creative breakthroughs and the frustrations, the inspired hours and the mundane ones, the full texture of a life lived in a particular set of rooms. Holding Space began as an investigation of that belief. I gained access to the preserved homes of iconic American artists and writers — Edward Hopper, Emily Dickinson, Jackson Pollock, Mark Twain, and others — spaces that are very much alive, visited daily by people who come seeking some trace of the people who made them. Working with actors, costumes, and dramatic light, I let my imagination loose inside these spaces — building fictional worlds from the raw material of real lives, real obsessions, real creative hunger. The images are not about what happened in these rooms. They are about what feels like it could still be happening, just out of sight.