About

I am an artist and educator whose work investigates attention, beauty, time, and our fundamental entanglement with all of existence, both human and more-than-human. Through photography, handmade paper, installation, and pedagogy, I cultivate spaces that invite us to slow down long enough to notice what is already present.

Formed by years of photojournalistic observation, contemplative practice, and photographic seeing, my practice is grounded in an acute sensitivity to subtle shifts in light, gesture, landscape, and the quiet indicators that a system is about to give way. Over time, my understanding of photography shifted away from the conventional view of the medium as a tool of extraction or capture. Photography, for me, is an active methodology of attention, an intentional, exacting way of being in reciprocity with what we observe.

At the center of my work is a practice of witnessing and an inquiry into the unified field: the recognition that nothing exists in isolation and that we belong to an interconnected reality. Working across lens-based media, handmade paper, and long-term durational projects, I treat grief, meditation, and sustained looking as complementary methodologies for dissolving the illusion of separateness. Whether mapping the transience of landscape or examining the fragile territory of the body, returning repeatedly to the same sites over extended periods reveals what a single glance cannot. These material and temporal studies make this underlying unity perceptible, directly challenging the extractive mindsets that enable the exploitation of both one another and the earth.

Whether standing beneath a dark cloth with a large-format camera, forming handmade paper sheet by sheet, tracking light across a room, or guiding students in the classroom, the same questions return: What becomes visible when we commit to radical presence? How does sustained engagement with beauty alter the way we inhabit the world? What happens when we replace the demand for certainty with rigorous curiosity?

As a professor, I teach students to cultivate ways of seeing that extend beyond camera technique and into how they navigate their lives. Time and again, I witness how a deliberate shift in perception changes not only what we notice, but how we understand ourselves and one another.