Artist’s Statement

At the heart of my work is a deep commitment to storytelling—whether through photography, moving image, installation-based work, or writing. I’m drawn to the quiet weight of memory, the way stories are carried in bodies, belongings, records, and images, and the tension between what becomes visible and what remains obscured. Themes of identity, memory, masculinity, aging, visibility, institutional systems, and emotional inheritance frequently emerge throughout my practice.

Documenting Stories + Preserving Legacies

I have long been fascinated by found photographs of strangers and often wonder how these images became separated from their original families. I’m interested in what remains after context disappears and how photographs continue to shape identity long after the people within them are gone.

I sometimes investigate and share the stories connected to found photographs and archival fragments—attempting, in some small way, to reconnect an image with a name.

This interest in preservation and disappearance continues throughout my work, including interpretive “Post-mortem Portraits” created from objects found within the estates of strangers. More recently, my ongoing project Permanent Record expands these ideas into larger questions surrounding visibility, institutional systems, and the ways records, images, and acts of documentation can outlive lived experience.

Aging, Identity + the Body

My work also engages with how time, observation, and social systems shape the body and identity. During a Photography and Video residency at the School of Visual Arts, I created a series examining distortion, masculinity, and aging by scanning bodies and layering the images with fabric, plastic, and masks. These pieces resist polished beauty, instead embracing vulnerability, awkwardness, concealment, and physical change.

Memory, Exposure + Psychological Inheritance

My video art series Memory Reassembly explores the lingering psychological impact of early exposure to adult experiences, fear, trauma, and instability. In the first piece of the series, Memory Reassembly: Shellshocked, I reflect on childhood exposure to a soldier severely affected by post-traumatic stress disorder and the lasting emotional imprint it left behind.

Recent projects increasingly incorporate sound, moving image, objects, archival material, and installation-based elements to create environments where visibility, memory, and control intersect. Across mediums, my work attempts to hold space for what’s been lost, what remains unresolved, and the stories people leave behind.