Keeping Up with the Jones’  acknowledges rising personal debt, by using the ideal of the suburb and consumption as the starting point in these photographs. This new work continues to question the ways in which private space communicates with public space. As this project concluded, millions more Americans not so quietly entered into foreclosure. The strategy for acquiring these images is one that has evolved into capturing a hypothetical gesture that symbolizes the high debt ratio that many Americans are currently live within. The move from the urban centers toward a suburban ideal can be seen as one initial contributing factor to the evaporating middle class.

The current debt crisis has been accumulating for some time and has been brought upon by many factors; medical bills, excessive student loans, the allure of celebrity, unbalanced economic opportunities leading to unemployment, national debt funneled to a community level, the ideal of the suburb failing, unnecessary or excessive consumption, among others. This project seeks to first address the question of why American culture as a whole is enticed by excess.