I share my passion of photography with my viewers. My earlier pieces focus on landscape and the calming affect a place can have on you. I focused on physical beauty in my photographs. After my landscapes, I started focusing on the human body and the beauty it showed us everyday. i became fascinated with the way shadows fell through out the body. I was obsessed with physical beauty, focusing only on the outside.
Shortly after these images I took up drawing. This was completely different for me and my topics were no longer about beauty, but I noticed my technique had a very soft effect to it. This caused my drawings to be delicate and beautiful in their own way. They reminded me of my portraits, although beauty wasn't the topic it still showed up in my work. The world can be a real ugly place and my goal was to show that there was still some beauty left in it.
Recent work of mine has been more conceptual. My flag is an installation piece that I put up in honor of 9/11. It stayed up for four days. It is made up of hundreds of berries. It stands for our country and how it is slowly starting to fall apart. It stands for the soldiers who have died for us. Some of the smashed berries even resemble human figures. My work went from proving there was still beauty left to documenting the ugly truth. I love working with photography and I am always finding new ways to express myself.
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