Josh Dancause

2010 Cortez

The House was small but full of warmth / The center of birthdays and holidays

Food and laughter filled the air / I remember this house / I always felt safe there

My second home

Strange changes come with age

Loss and mourning / A draft in vacant rooms / Objects in ruin / Only traces are left / And the colors no longer warm and vivid

I revisit these memories / I revisit this house / Hoping to find my way back home

Bio: Joshua Dancause is an artist and photographer born and raised in Laredo, TX. He is currently working on his MFA in Photography at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi where he received his BFA in studio art in 2013. His work uses archive and alternative processes to explore themes of identity and gender. Dancause’s images have been shown nationally at First Street Gallery in New York, Darkroom Gallery in Vermont, Buchanan Center for the Arts in Illinois among others.