About Me

       I first fell in love with taking photos using a borrowed camera in my middle school photography class. Initially, I was fascinated by capturing beautiful scenes around me. In ninth grade, I got my own camera and began to explore documenting situations and events. 

       I use photography to look more closely at the world, searching for what is hidden. I am drawn to shoot empty landscapes, and have found that trees, often overlooked, can be some of the most expressive objects in nature. Many of my photos evoke a sense of solitude, or loneliness, and time past or passing. Through the use of angles and close-ups, I try to uncover details that hint at what or who has gone before, finding beauty in the aged. I have been experimenting with synecdoche to try to reveal the essence of a place or object by focusing on its parts and then recombining them into abstract compositions. 

       Currently, I am exploring both building photographic narratives through the use of sequences and creating abstract-expressionist-inspired photographic collages. Reconstructing ordinary objects by experimenting with symmetry, repetition, and reflection, my photos work to inspire the viewer to look at the world in a different, more abstract way.