ABOUT ME

I am an artist based in Washington, DC. My artwork explores liminal spaces: transitional states where life and death, strength and fragility, permanence and impermanence merge. I am as transfixed by the slow corrosion of rust on an I-beam as I am by the fleeting collapse of a tulip. Both speak of endings, yet in their decline they reveal unexpected vitality. I find a stunning elegance in decay, a final dance between presence and absence.

Through close studies of flowers, I magnify the fleeting until it becomes monumental. A petal’s folds echo architecture, while a dying bloom radiates a brief, but heightened brilliance. In contrast, my photographs of airplanes and machines abstract the monumental until it becomes fragile: wings dissolve into horizon lines; rivets scatter into pattern, steel collapses into bone.

My process begins with an intensive photographic exploration of a subject. Typically, I take hundreds of images.  At times, I intervene before the camera: hand-painting flowers, freezing seed pods, then photographing them as they thaw and collapse.

Once I’ve identified the image, I digitally layer in additional textures. I draw on a vast library of my own photographs: rusted metals, weathered woods, peeling paints and corroded surfaces, along with scans of watercolors, prints, and collages I’ve created over the years.