ABOUT ME

I am an artist based in Washington, DC. My artwork explores liminal spaces — transitional states where life and death, strength and fragility, permanence and impermanence overlap. I am as transfixed by the slow corrosion of rust on an I-beam as I am by the fleeting collapse of a tulip. Both speak of endings, yet in their decline they reveal unexpected vitality. I find a stunning elegance in decay, a final dance between presence and absence.

Through close studies of flowers, I magnify the fleeting until it becomes monumental. A petal’s folds echo architecture, while a dying bloom radiates a brief, but heightened brilliance. In contrast, my photographs of airplanes and machines abstract the monumental until it becomes fragile: wings dissolve into horizon lines, rivets scatter into pattern, steel collapses into bone.

Together, these works meditate on impermanence. They dwell in the thresholds where categories collapse — the engineered and the organic, the enduring and the fragile. In this liminal space, beauty emerges most vividly in the act of dissolution and the inevitability of transformation.

My process always begins with an intensive photographic exploration of a subject. I may take hundreds of images before finding the the best one that opens a door onto impermanence.  At times, I intervene before the camera: hand-painting flowers, freezing seed pods, then photographing them as they thaw and collapse. These small acts of transformation open a space where fragility and resilience coexist.

Once I’ve identified that image, I begin to digitally layer in additional textures of decay. I draw from a vast library of my own photographs of rusted metal, weathered wood, peeling paint, and corroded surfaces, along with scans of watercolors, prints, and collages I’ve created over the years. I layer these fragments until the image comes to embody my own outlook on life — beauty revealed through transience and erosion.