Born and raised in the South Eliza Daffin’s film work is a documentation of her family’s land. Most of her images are from the family farm and surrounding rural areas.
She is a large format photographer and her main subjects are landscapes and animal bones. The landscapes range from agriculture to swamps. In her swamps series, the tree’s undisturbed reflections are the main subject, emphasizing their slow decay along the creek. Eliza’s family owns the local butcher shop, Daffin’s Meat Processing. The subjects in her bones series range in decay. The subjects become abstracted by emphasizing texture, light, and shadow. Some images are abstracted beyond recognition. This abstraction creates ambiguity, causing the viewer’s eye to move across the frame.
Bones have been ever-present through Eliza’s childhood and this series is not to disrespect the animals it is a documentation of their presence and decay. Whether decaying landscapes or bones the series’ foundation is based on Eliza’s family ties to her and the land.