In her work, vacant, not abandoned, Jules Nash explores the concept of the things we leave behind along with the identities those things craft. This project began as a means of photographing spaces and the things that inhabit them as a way to document human life without the presence of individuals themselves. As time went on, the project began to be recontextualized by the development of covid-19 and the quarantine era. The work now serves as a way of reimagining the meaning of vacant spaces affected by the virus that will be reinhabited come the end of this era. While these spaces are currently vacant, they are not abandoned and will soon be revisited with a new connotation.
