about
My photographic work explores the ecological world in relationship to climate grief, life and decomposition cycles, and wonder. I am interested in creating abstract typologies that respond specifically to time and place, and I use both lens-based and experimental cameraless processes in my work. I engage in place-specific collaborations with the environment by placing natural materials, such as plant matter, water from lakes, salt marshes and the ocean, and decaying wildlife on the surface of photographic film and paper. These materials, along with sunlight, precipitation and temperature, work to slowly and unpredictably erode, decay and alter the silver emulsion, which proves to be both fragile and resilient to these changes.
I am also interested cataloging time, place and experience through typological grids, utilizing cameraless photographic drawings and other methods. These works are in response to personal and political events, often reflecting my experience as a woman who inhabits a queer body in a changing landscape.
I am currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Hollins University, a historically women's college in Southwest VA. Prior to relocating to the Southeast, I ran a community-access darkroom and digital photography facility, teaching and mentoring for nearly 15 years in northern Vermont.
MFA - Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University; Cambridge, MA
BFA - Northern Vermont University; Johnson, VT
