sage in the thicket

The finalized images from my senior project, for those who couldn't make it to the show.

artist statement: To appreciate Nature requires participation, and to walk in the woods, as these photographs invite the viewer to do. When entering the wilderness, you experience a paradox: moving "backward," away from civility, but also forward, toward mystical higher law.

A puzzle planted on the forest floor.

Girls Project

artist statement: I photographed women in their 20s whom I had met in my 20s, so essentially, my peers. The theme is that we, as young women, are still much more impressionable than we believe. I used recognizable poses, like statuesque body language and kneeling in prayer, to invite the viewer to infer the effect these archetypes have had over us women, and how we young women see ourselves in relation to these loaded meanings for womanhood. These photographs are about me arriving at my twenties still not feeling like a grown-up, and still craving answers.