Portfolio
Working with found objects, such as old photographs and negatives, I create mixed media works of art that are meant to tell stories. I try to envision a memory that could go with the object and let the object inspire the direction of the piece. I also work in traditional darkroom photography processes as well as digital photography.
Work
Reclaimed Memories
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Unknown Man
Acrylic Medium, paper, watercolor, metal, wood, wax, acrylic paint
2017
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Collected Photography
Leather, acrylic paint, paper, acrylic medium, photographs, camera lens, cardboard, metal, velvet, wax
2019
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Trouble
Wire, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, photographs, metal, wood, paper
2017
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She
Cyanotype on fabric, chalk pastels
2019
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Shiftwork
Acrylic medium, paper, wax, wood, acrylic paint
2017
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Do You Remember When
Acrylic medium, pastels, pencil, acrylic paint, paper, wax
2019
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Fractured Memories
Tea-toned cyanotypes, wax, acrylic medium, metal, acrylic paint, wood, wire, paper, liquid emulsion
2017
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Good Times Roll
Acrylic medium, oil based paint, acrylic paint, plastic
2017
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It’s Home To Us
Tea-toned cyanotypes on paper, fabric, wood, metal, wire, glass
2017
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Sent With Love
Cyanotypes on fabric, paper, thread, photographs
2019
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The Beginning
Photographs, acrylic paint, camera, fabric, paper, pen, charcoal
2019
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His (Left), Hers (Right)
Paper, acrylic medium, acrylic paint, metal, wood, paper, tea-toned cyanotypes on paper, fabric, tintype, lavendar
2017
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Closely
Cyanotypes on paper, paper, acrylic paint, metal, glass, wire
2017
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Know All Men
Paper, wax, acrylic medium, metal, wire
2019
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Gatherer
Van Dyke Brown prints on vellum, paper, wax, metal, wood, glass
2015
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Captured
Cyanotype on fabric, metal
2019