I am a photographer initially rooted in formalism and modernist landscape art. I am now exploring combining traditional photographic processes with new and mixed media, scientific and mapping technology, and appropriated historical materials.
I believe the photograph can take on new meaning and importance in the form of a physical object. For me, the act of _printing_ with 19th and early 20th-century photographic materials like palladium, albumen, and gelatin silver-chloride, is a significant component of my artistic practice. Photographing and physically making a print is a meditative process that allows for the time and mental clarity to reflect on my work. Through that process, I develop a new relationship with the picture that goes deeper than when I looked through the camera—something I believe can be a transformative experience. I hope the print, with its beauty as a physical and immersive object, becomes a conduit for a transformative experience in the viewer as well.
