Personal
I started making photos in the hiking trails surrounding Crystal Bridges at the age of ten. As a result, I feel the most “myself” in nature. It was then that I began to notice the way that Southern, evening light transforms everything it touches. Komorebi (木漏れ日), scattered light that escapes through the gaps in tree branches, informs my sense of light in my photographs. Harmonies, quietude, shadows, abstraction of color, and movement are elements that meet within my visual language.
The feeling of driving down a road as the day fades, or the softness of morning in a room as you take your coffee - offshoots of how light makes us feel; light as memory. I believe that photography’s job is not to be mimetic of reality, but to recall it. Now, after living between Brooklyn, Copenhagen, and St Andrews, Scotland, I am often making work that attempts to capture the particularities of light regarding place.