FLOWERS FROM FRANCE

In my photographs I choreograph an array of found objects within environments I pattern myself. My cast and sets are chosen for their symbolic potential, then merged together for their associative possibilities. My technique, experimental and prone to chance, is created to support uneasy hybrid narratives. I use photographic montage for the layering of alternate states, abstraction to emphasize an edgy suspension between reality and dream, and the element of water to provide a stage that is infinitely malleable and suggestive of the irrational. For my portfolios “Life Still” and “Flowers from France”, both created during the months of quarantine, I have combined vintage photographs with painting excerpts from travels and trips to museums. Through lenses and desktop screens I reimagine the gardens of the past, I revisit Paris and the Louvre, as I tap into themes of nostalgia, longing, and escapism.