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.
