it’s just, here (2018)





In it's just, here (2018), Doyle captures his native Wheaton, IL throughout the past few years. Presenting a number of spaces and objects, the work captures a town going through a number of transitions and transformations: local staples going out of business, sites of construction and destruction. Through this investigation of space, we discover unique attributes to the town’s daily life and topography: the patterns of the brick-based architecture, the way ice crystalizes on a window during winter, power lines outlining the sky, the secret spaces most residents probably never realized existed. These are simple details but they represent the sensation, or else a memory, of the town's lived experience and history.