Photography

I primarily work in black&white 35mm film, especially recovered film from the previous century— in this vein, I seek to capture qualities of life and architecture that are "smoothed out" via algorithm in a modern digital artscape. (I am anti-anti-halation.) In this sense, I pull primarily from pictorialists, brutalists, expressionists, and surrealists such as Man Ray, Olga Karlovac, Sarah Moon, and my mentor, Giada Otten. As in my poetic body of work, my photography also reflects moments of liminality and transition— spaces once populated, now throughways; angles of buildings against the joint of their architecture; abandoned and reclaimed native areas; prairiegrass and nettle. I’ve found that a lot of drama can be found in the face of a flower. Moments of objectivity become subjective by mere cataloging. My aim is to, above all else, bring about a uniqueness of perspective in vision and in perception of surroundings within my body of work that gets the viewer to solicit similar, if not the same, shapes and shades within their own worldview, to seek a softness within the diagonal, to find the structure within the hungry arms of trees, to let dreamscape bleed into the viewfinder a touch more than the viewer has allowed themselves.