Artist Statement

My work is an exploration of the human mind and how our bodies connect and disconnect from the rough emotions of the experiences we go through in our minds. By placing myself at the center of the work, I turn my body into both subject and medium. In embracing this, I let the audience have a choice of either putting themselves in my position or letting them view me as a human experience. Whenever I don't use self-portraiture, I use constructed imagery as my photographic form to highlight the ideas of how the world around us can affect us.

Using both digital and traditional analog photography techniques, I create tension between the mediums. I often use a multitude of them in one image whether that is using a digital negative that becomes a silver gelatin print, or using a digital scanner on the back of a large format camera.

These tensions of both the mind and body using both digital and traditional analog photography techniques become the physical ideas of control and vulnerability that exist within the frame and process.