Breathers:
Breathers is an emotional portrait, a near-typology of Pacific Northwest trees and their relationship to the developing landscape that is my mother in-law's early onset Alzheimer's Disease. They push upward and hover over homes, set against skies that isolate them like studio backdrops. The holes in their branches and leaves mimic gaps in cognition and metaphoric spaces left in the brain. They have seen and heard everything and hang – breathing – through it all.
This work processes a move and adaption from New York City's concrete mass to the Pacific Northwest's green oasis, and the reasons for moving; a disease that has claimed a rapidly vanishing memory, and the toll it's taken on our family. In this context, the trees serve as listeners, breathers, and emotional guardians that have witnessed trauma and change.
True North:
A search for a guide through life – an orienting point when things are both troubling and hopeful. The quarantine, which followed the birth of my daughter in 2018 and a series of deaths of loved ones over the past few years has been a slow, bittersweet burn of life and death. Loss seems to be everywhere. In the clouds. In the way the water ripples in the tide. In the way the sun can look like the moon on an overcast day and tiny specs of light can look like stars.
Flowers For… (coming soon)
Small Signs:
These photos attempt to make sense of the ominous intersections between man-made objects and our natural landscape. They are a response to the way we live now, in constant communion with our surroundings, finding elements of science fiction in the everyday.
Fast Food:
These photographs reflect the love/hate relationship that many Americans have with fast food, and, like many other aspects of popular culture, its ability to be simultaneously seductive and repulsive. Hamburgers, French fries, chicken nuggets and "specialty" sandwiches are scanned on stark black backgrounds, isolated from their branded context, without name recognition, nearly floating in space. Under austere, uniform lighting; stripped of branding, packaging and iconography, the food takes on a scientific, yet ethereal quality that is at times both revolting and mouthwatering.
A Number of Obstacles (Coming Soon)
The Serpent and the Rainbow:
The Serpent and The Rainbow is a series of stills from the production-logo introduction screens of VHS tapes of 1970's and 1980's horror and science fiction movies. I’m drawn to the false sense of eeriness that production houses achieved simply from combining a cheap, yet vibrant logo with lo-fi Casio-driven soundscapes and their ability to create a sense of terror that is at times more horrific than the movies themselves.
Fallout:
These images were made over a period of 5 days spent in Hiroshima in October, 2012. .