Artist Statement

My work includes still lifes, botanical studies and intimate landscapes.  I reimagine the traditional still life through the lens of art history and nature. Drawing inspiration from 17th-century Dutch vanitas and sottobosco paintings, I construct layered compositions that often evoke a sense of temporal dislocation. By juxtaposing style and symbology from the vanitas paintings with modern elements, my work invites viewers into a multi-layered, close-looking experience where past and present overlap and coexist.  My botanical studies and intimate landscapes are visual poems that distill visual experience and reveal the presence of deeper animating forces.

I capture many images, then use them as layers that are digitally distilled and refined. This process involves removing extraneous elements and building visual hierarchies. It is a process of isolating what is essential while also heightening visual impact. In this way, I create a painterly photograph, using digital tools to guide attention and shape how my work is experienced. 

My work seeks to awaken visual awareness and deepen engagement with the world. Its reveals the extraordinary. My work is an invitation to slow down, look longer, and participate imaginatively in what could be seen. Language is limited. I am interested in how visual experience can communicate beyond the limits of language. In how visual experience can act as a catalyst for understanding what is intuitive and sensory thereby uniting memory and imagination.