a word from me

I engage in both analog and alternative photographic practices, creating images that evoke the intimacies and tenderness of both my personal existence as well as the collective web of human emotion and experience. Striving to reveal something unexpected, a moment of rawness that is not as simple as it seems, I hope to make the viewer feel, grasp, wonder, cry, laugh, or remember. 

Self-portraiture is also a key part of my practice, and the act of engaging my bare body with my environment is equally important to my work as the final image itself. Through this experience, an emphasis on performance, storytelling and play has been birthed, often revealing humor and lightness in my imagery. In exposing this moment of spontaneity and connection between myself and the objects I choose to interact with, new perspectives on common everyday scenarios are often formed. 

By combining my own photographic imagery with other mediums such as three dimensional displays, sculptural interventions, collage, found objects, video projections, and shadow box constructions, I am interested in exploring the stories of memory, trauma, dream, nostalgia and the things we hide deep within the self. I often find myself more intrigued by process than product, as well as the human imperfections that come through in the creation process. Within all of my work I enjoy leaving moments to be discovered by the viewer, playing with the boundary between what is seen clearly and what is hidden beneath. There exists an inherent duality between light and dark, new and old, inner and outer, and the space between. Within these areas of transience,I strive to honor something once ephemeral, now manifested physically.