My work asks viewers to consider how we view the world through two primary series.
The first asks us to consider the ways we may view flora in our immediate world: divided by frames, cropped in unusual ways, abstracted. All these acknowledge a distance we place between ourselves and the natural world and the ways we seek to control that world. And yet the detail I capture, the contrast and movement of the eye around the page pull us in.
The second asks us to consider seeing the world through memory, that is, through the distance of time and space. Most of the images here are of Southwest Virginia, a part of Appalachia near where I grew up. The shallow rural world provided peace at a fraught time. It is no mystery why I started this series during the pandemic.