I am an artist based in Connecticut. I work in the mental health field, and I practice photography as a way to process my emotions and experiences. I want my images to feel like memories plucked out of my messy brain. Most of my images feel like snapshots, just things I find along the way—but I go a lot of ways. I dunk decades-old film in hot, goopy concoctions before development. I shove objects in front of my lenses until images look like feelings. I take blind double- and triple-exposures and set the rolls aside until I forget what’s on them. I play. I gamble. I’ve ruined some of the best pictures I’ve ever taken.
I hope my photos push people to pay just a bit more attention to their experiences, and maybe consider the impact that their feelings have on those experiences. I also hope my pictures are weird and that some people don’t like them.
Inspirations
Light reflecting on water
“Homecoming” by Peter Broderick
The smell of burning egg cartons
Painter Chu Teh Chun
Ambient musician Barbara Braccini AKA Malibu
Powerlines & railroad tracks
Songs “Fields of Gold,” “The Wind,” and “So I’m growing old on magic mountain”
The final scene from In the Mood For Love
Photographers Olivia Bee, Elisabeth Dare, and Rinko Kawauchi
“Paris, Texas” — especially the home movie sequences & the second half
Wim Wenders’s “Until the End of the World”
Farmlands & long, gold grass
Robbie Mueller and Christopher Doyle
Andy Goldsworthy (& the documentaries about him)
The photobooks “Dream Villa” by Dayanita Singh; “The Sniper Paused. . .” by Sean Lotman, “Exiles” by Josef Koudelka
Late Turner paintings
Blue hour
Dead trees
Satoshi Ashikawa’s album “Still Wave”
Analogous color schemes
Chuck Johnson’s album Balsams
Holding hands
The movie Kaili Blues
Naomi Novik’s novel Uprooted
Van Gogh
Imaginary Softwoods
Youtube videos by Ibasho Gallery
Folk horror film landscapes
The Bronte sisters
Internet Archive
Tim Hecker
Mastering Composition by Ian Roberts; Color Choices by Ian Quiller; The Tao of Chinese Landscape Painting by Wucius Wong