Artist Statement

Photographs are vessels of time, moments lingering indefinitely, portals through which we can traverse the dimensions of time and space. I feel the urge to document places with human presence and intervention. I seek out moments in time that are on the verge of becoming obsolete, often juxtaposed with indulgent or hedonistic objects such as cigarettes, alcohol, and birthday cake. I live for encountering moments of weirdness, a broken bottle of beet juice on a grocery store floor, a Colt 45 bottle as a flower vase, and cheetah print underwear. I fuse these photographs through collage in Photoshop. I flirt with the notion of a photographic print as a sculpture, exploring themes of materiality, temporality, and spatiality. Through these explorations, I form temporal pauses and fabricated memories.