Artist Statement

My work explores themes of isolation, solitude, and introspection through the overlapping of our interior and exterior worlds. With subject matter drawn from family, rural settings, and domestic scenes, my work explores our relationship to our immediate environment. My personal history of being adopted creates an existential mystery and detached independence that has remained throughout my life, alternating between feeling connected and untethered. The natural world has been a place of escape and connection.

In the more traditional landscape photographs, the complex interplay between the encroachment of human activity and nature’s reclamation of neglected sites are explored. Still lives of interiors function similarly to the landscapes as they represent one’s immediate environment, gleaning meaning from the way our surroundings represent our concerns and impactful experiences. 

My bodies of work  include the interaction of landscape and the interior environments we create; color and black and white images provide different levels of abstraction.  Photographs taken with plastic cameras provide a distorted view to further internalize the world around us.  Lastly,  handmade books strive to create a synthesis of these different aspects of the context in which we live. My intent is to depict moments of portend and allude to something beyond.