During the summer of 2020, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the artist residency at The Siren, Detroit. I completed two bodies of work during my time:
The Siren Collection is a collection of experimental, camera-less darkroom images combined with the lush colors of the lobby at The Siren and the color story of 2020 New York Fashion Week’s Fall/Winter Pantone collection.
A Lack of Control are a series of abstract, experimental images highlighting the colors and textures of The Belt, Detroit.
I have spent my entire life trying to control every single little thing around me - often successfully, but at a great detraction to my own personal health and happiness. The only space in my life that I let go and allow “things to be” as they are is photography. In fact, I am often going in the opposite direction - I am actively chasing a lack of control in myself through my work.
Any photography that is too perfect, too particular, too measured, is completely uninteresting to me. I want to find the spaces where photography is mysterious, unpredictable, and filled with change. I view my work as a continuous set of experiments - because of that, when I “perfect” a method within the craft, I find ways to either pivot or abandon completely for fresh space. During this residency, I have lived in that experimental space through creating abstractions by shooting through glass, creating images that feel both familiar and otherworldly, a space of light and texture that cannot be easily replicated by the natural eye. I have chosen to work within abstraction due to the wanting to chase a world less mundane than the one that I occupy, one where there is curiosity in any space that is observed for a little more time.
This body of work is currently available for exhibition! Please contact for more information.
This work has been featured in the following exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 A Siren’s Call, Solo Exhibition, Patch & Remington, Marcellus, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023Affordable Art Fair, Curator Sarah Ayers with Arbor3 Arts, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY 2022 Re/VIEW: The CCS Alumni Exhibition, Valade Family Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Into the Open, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2021 Spring Open Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
