01.timescrap: 10.13.2020

Situated between recorded document, formal abstraction, and visual poetry, my work revolves around the human-environmental relationship and how photography (both moving and still) helps us to better understand ourselves through the lens of the natural world. Through experimentation and unconventional techniques, the photographic medium and its materiality is explored as a tool, interrogated as a subject, or used as a catalyst for new possibilities such as a mixed media collage, animation, or installation. I am interested in setting up scenarios that embrace the mystery of optics, element of chance, and the conceptual impact of materials, looking for ways to work with the photographic medium that can speak to both its past as well as its future.

Cycles in nature, passage of time, and the fragile impermanence of life are some thematic threads that run through my work. Referencing various sources such as art and photographic history, science, current events, the female perspective, and personal experience, my work often takes a diaristic form as a way to illustrate how the physical, cultural, and personal intertwine. The plight of insects, the pathway of the sun, a hurricane, and now, a virus – the subjects I choose reflect upon how nature impacts our lives—in ways that are both obvious and more mysterious—while sometimes calling attention to broader issues surrounding our community and the physical environment.