I have had formal training in fine art photography, lighting, and printing during my multiple art photography classes at Colorado State University, including the senior art photography capstone class. Through these classes and my personal artistic pursuit, I have formulated multiple bodies of work that explored different image-making techniques from medium and 35mm format film to digital to cyanotypes.
A Typical Week
A Week in Portugal
A Week that Fades
I have always found the metaphoric qualities of multiple-exposures to be an intriguing way to express contemplation, memory, and consciousness in a singular photographic piece. The layering and blending of images together are an accurate portrayal of the constant whirl of visual information passing through my eyes while being stored and recalled in my head.
During my undergraduate studies, I experimented with double exposures to express the unknown of my best friend moving to the east coast. My latest experimentation with multiple exposures has developed into the beginnings of a body of work called "Exposed Consciousness". This body of work involves exposing a roll of film once a day, seven times a week, to express my stream of consciousness. The resulting layering of photos creates a multiple-exposure panoramic experience of my week melding together. The finalized prints are 11 feet long and 2 feet high, and they depict all three strips of the 12 frames stacked on top of each other to show the entire roll, with 252 photos compiled together in the piece.
"There is No Away" is a body of work that reflects upon the story of our disregarded trash and how, even after these misplaced items go to where they supposedly belong, they do not disappear.
Inspired by photographer Ryan Schude, these tableaux are an exploration that combines my background in filmmaking with creating a singular frame to tell a story,
