This series of paintings and drawings begun in 2024 attempts to articulate a search for threads of hope, humanity and solidarity within a socially and politically unhinging world. Here, plants resist the weight of a leaden earth through their upward struggle, displaying resilience despite the toxicity of the landscape in which they germinate.

In these photographs from my ongoing Walls series, the literal and metaphoric signs within the city are composed to relate to one another in unusual ways, in order to form cryptic meanings. I attempt to charge the imagination, the vehicle of entrance, with questions of what may exist within and beyond the architecture. In this respect, the images manifest both psychological and socio-political associations that are leveraged by the ambiguities within the found place.

This ongoing series of photographs begun in 2022 is a political commentary that associates photographs of Lake Erie made from the north shore looking southward toward America with recurring words in news headlines, creating a tension between the natural landscape and ideologies of control and dispossession.