As an artist, photographer, and teacher, my practice is rooted in curiosity, observation, and a desire to understand a place through making. Nature has always been where I reset and pay attention. I am drawn to the textures, colors, layers, and overlooked moments within a landscape, photographing details that might otherwise be passed by. Teaching keeps this curiosity active. Exploring materials and processes with my students continually brings me back to experimentation in my own work.

My photographs become starting points rather than finished images. I print them onto watercolor paper, then use watercolor, acrylic, water, texture, and the original ink to dissolve, obscure, rebuild, and shift what was initially recorded. Through this process, the landscape becomes less about documenting a particular place and more about translating my experience within it. Each work functions, in some way, as a self-portrait, holding both the character of the landscape and something of my own mindset at the time.

I am interested in the ambiguity that develops through this layering. A form might suggest a close view of moss, rock, or water while simultaneously resembling something seen from far above. That uncertainty of scale mirrors the larger questions within the work: where am I, what am I noticing, and how does my perspective change over time? I want the work to leave enough unresolved that the viewer can find their own way through it.