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- Places I Never Lived: Beaver Hills, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Places I Never Lived: Old Town, Rhode Island
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- Places I Never Lived: Mohegan Trail, Block Island
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- Places I Never Lived: Block Island
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- Places I Never Lived: North Haven, Connecticut
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- Places I Never Lived: Spring Glen, Hamden, Connecticut
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- Places I Never Lived: Old Harbor 1, Block Island
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- Places I Never Lived: Whitneyville, Hamden, Connecticut
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- Places I Never Lived: Old Harbor 2, Block Island
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- Places I Never Lived: Canton, New York
Joy Bush
Places I Never Lived
The series Places I Never Lived is an exploration of the way that people put their mark on the world. While photographing the facade of each house in a sleuth-like fashion, I fantasize about who lives there and what life is like on the inside. It is not spying or voyeurism. It is about imagining my life in a different place.
At the same time what draws me to these places is the echo of a human presence, even though people themselves are absent. Inevitably, a barrier exists between each house and me. Carefully groomed landscaping or fencing can block my way as completely as can a cluster of trees or untrimmed hedges. This, however, only adds to the seductiveness of the place. And that only reinforces my questions: Who lives in these houses? And who would I be if I lived there?
Artist Bio
Joy Bush is a fine art photographer based in Hamden, CT. She grew up near New York City and as a child, loved family excursions to NYC museums, theater productions, dance performances, and music concerts. The trips always ended with a delightful ice cream cone (or a delicious meal at the Stage Delicatessen). Joy discovered photography as an art form soon after graduating from college and eventually landed a job as the university photographer for Southern Connecticut State University. Now retired from photographing for the university, she finds that she is drawn to photographing the echoes of the presence of people rather than people themselves.