About
The first creative thing I can remember doing was trying to uproot a large tree in my neighbor’s yard when I was about 12. I was visiting my father along with my sisters for the summer in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. My father worked during the day and I was an angry middle child. I started digging in secret and chipped away day after day until the neighbor found out and started screaming. I ran away and hid under the covers. My dad caught the brunt of the neighbor’s anger. I don’t remember being punished but I do remember leaving soon after.
That was also the summer I shot my first roll of film on a pocket-sized Rollei 35. I didn’t know what I was doing and only one photo turned out. Somehow the photography stuck and the destructive gardening stopped.
I think photographers are naturally nostalgic. They are working to preserve moments using an instrument the records time and space. We look at the images to remember and fill in the gaps. My work focuses specifically on themes of memory how the camera can interpret a moment. I use original and found images to connect to the past. Their memories could be my memories.
I am a chemical photographic artist living in Buda, Texas. I shoot, develop, and print in analogue. I use a 4x5 Speed Graphic, Fuji 617, and experiment with old soviet cameras and alternative processes to express my ideas.
I make a lot of mistakes.