I was raised on a small farm in the Appalachian foothills of Pennsylvania. This upbringing led

me to a deep attunement with the natural world and its rhythms, as well as an appreciation for the

satisfaction of manual labor. These early influences continue to persist in my work today. I am

motivated by a connection to the land, frameworks of routine and repetition, and a consistent

desire for physical engagement with artistic material. This exhibition re-examines the familiar

hills and valleys of my home by exploring how the concepts of space, landscape, and memory

function as aspects of place making. 

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While my work remains tied to photography’s historical connections to death, time, and

preservation, I choose to embrace the subjective and emotionally driven aspects of memory and

experience, rather than propose photography as an objective record of reality. To create many of

these photographs, I integrate organic material collected from my home directly into the

photographic process. Oscillating between varying levels of recognition and abstraction, the final

images create emotional tonalities of loss, melancholy, and nostalgia. By engaging with both

cameraless and lens-based photographic processes, I work to expand our understanding of the

medium of photography and draw attention to the expressive potential of photographic papers

and chemistry.