I received my Master of Fine Arts degree from San Jose State University in 2022 and currently reside in the SF Bay Area. I’ve had the privilege of traveling and living in a variety of locations including New York, San Francisco, Florence, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Australia, and India.

For better or for worse, I’ve always committed myself to my art practice. Making art engages my overactive mind and centers my wandering spirit. Over the course of my life, I’ve experimented with just about every medium I could access. Whether it be the low realm of crafts or the high realm of fine art, creating new work is my obsession.

Currently, I’m focusing primarily with film as my artistic medium. I’ve been a film photographer for many years working mainly with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Recently, I’ve taken on the challenge of large format photography, utilizing a massive hundred-year-old 8x10” camera. Accordingly, I develop and print my own 8x10” black and white film in a traditional darkroom setting. I’m also venturing into the exciting world of moving images by working in both Super 8 and 16mm film. For these short films, I embrace a very experimental approach by abandoning the conventions of traditional narrative filmmaking.

Having grown up in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, I’ve both accepted and rejected key elements of my upbringing. The aesthetic and spiritual beauty of the natural world was instilled upon me from a young age and is still a great source of inspiration. While the rejection of traditional, religious, and conservative social norms has also been a vital aspect to my life and identity. Categorizing the world into categories of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ is wildly inaccurate and ultimately detrimental. Therefore, my art practice can neither be defined as moral or immoral, left or right, male or female, or any other reductive binaries. Instead, I seek to create work which transcends words, labels, and subjective ideas. Such work appeals to the subconscious mind in the universal, instinctual, and collective realm of human existence.