Statement

Taking a photo on film creates a physical document of a moment in time. With these visual recordings come imperfections and restrictiveness, which create a subtly distorted, dream-like quality. When that film is altered, the message becomes less about the moment in time, and more about the process of change.

I am drawn to capture how nature interacts with our surroundings. It is a meditative process for me to drive and walk around alone, and look at how I can frame what’s around me in a photo. Trees and powerlines are two distinctive objects that are all around us today, and they represent the clash of humans and naturality. Trees are living things that can grow into intricate patterns of branches and leaves that tower over us, while power lines are human manufactured objects made of the same material as these trees. They both occupy similar spaces, and their continuous coexistence reminds me of people interacting with the world around them.

Photography is often used as a way to try and capture something as a 1:1 recreation of that moment. Of course a photo can never be a copy of the real world, but that doesn’t stop many people from trying to achieve that. While most people use the medium of photography like this, I never want my photos to feel like they are just a document or a memory. The way I construct my is more in line with paintings than how photos are traditionally seen.