As a child, I delighted in building houses and neighborhoods out of Legos and later drawing flat outlines of those same houses onto paper. The majority of my work over the past decade has aimed to capture a sense of place and architecture through photography, painting, collage, printmaking, and installation. I begin by photographing architecture and other structures in places around the world, in a sense documenting the places that I have visited. My early work framed an area of a building or house abstracting the subject matter, colors, and shapes. A palette of clashing colors was chosen and shapes were repeated to create patterns.

Years later I experimented with creating whole works of art through painting, monotype, photocopy transfer, and collage and then cutting up those works into smaller pieces. The pieces were then rearranged and sewn together or glued to another surface creating a new piece of art. The viewer is encouraged to look at the architecture in a different way. The idea of taking a work of art and cutting it into pieces relates to how I played with Legos as a child. The Legos were first divided into piles of different shapes and colors and then pieces from each pile were chosen to create one large structure.

My most recent installations deviated from the structure of buildings and manmade design to the structure of nature and specifically, fungi, while still focusing on the theme of place. As a trail runner and a lover of nature, I spend a lot of time outdoors in the woods. On my running and hiking adventures I gravitate to photographing nature, specifically fungi and mushroom species. I have explored and researched the shape, form, and network of fungus both on the forest floor and beneath it. My most recent indoor installations and site-specific outdoor installations aim to capture the beauty of nature and my sentimental attachment to where I discover it.

For the past few years I have explored both film photography and alternative photographic processes like lumens, chemigrams, cyanotypes, and cyanolumens to capture both nature and architectural structures. My most recent film work continues to explore the theme of place- where I have traveled, lived or locations where I have formed emotional attachments. My photographic work is divided into a series of images that can be described as both formal and narrative. The images focus on line, shape, and texture framing a part of a building, structure, or place while also using openings in various formats to pull the viewer in, through, and out of the images. I want to bring attention to the things we see everyday and perhaps overlook, and the places documented in the images could essentially be anywhere.