About

Growing up in rural North Carolina, my artwork has always drawn inspiration from my surroundings. My early work captured photographic abstractions of nature—isolated miniature landscapes that are both familiar yet unplaceable. These abstractions highlight nature’s transient state, investigating how features of the landscape define and even mimic one another.

Over time, my work has evolved to look critically at how nature intersects with the manmade, both imitating and eluding one another. As the Charlotte suburbs expanded towards my hometown, I witnessed the transformation of a once-familiar landscape as it was reshaped to accommodate the growing population. Bearing witness to the ways that urbanization reinvented the surrounding landscape, I became more aware of how modernity defines the environment and our movement within it. New construction seems to underpin the artificial quality of manmade geographies, highlighting the incompatibility of many Western manmade designs with the natural landscape. My work draws inspiration from these contradictory qualities, often juxtaposing the aesthetics of contemporary Western architecture with the organic contours of nature.

My recent work engages with modernity, consumerism, neocolonialism, and capitalism, critically examining how these issues influence the environment as well as the communities that live within them. I am a multidisciplinary artist, working primarily with digital and film photography. The photographic lens is a tool of consumerism and western scientific modernity and its alleged objective reality was once a key device in the colonial agenda. By using photography as my primary medium, I seek to simultaneously acknowledge and co-opt the very forces that my work seeks to comment on.