I was born in 1973 to a Homecoming Queen and an Army veteran in a small Mid-Western town along the Mississppi River.

I have perpetually torn things apart to see how they work and then imagined new things to create with the parts.
This mindset is what brought me to art in the first place.

Currently I am living in Charlottesville, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, working on my Masters degree in Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and teaching everything from Technology in Art Education to alternative process photography.

 

The power of the photograph is hard to deny in our society. Image is everything and everything is image. I have long been interested in how the camera can capture an image or a moment and hold it for us to enjoy or scrutinize. The removal or capture of an image from its original context gives the image a whole new meaning. It is this meaning that I am most interested in. My work explores the power of the photograph to reveal or hide in our society and how it has been used throughout a century and a half history to do so.