About
About Me
After graduating from college in rural Minnesota with an art degree, emphasis in photography, I moved to Boston to continue to pursue my passion in an urban setting. Fascinated by viewer interaction, I am currently exploring the experiential medium of Photo-Installation. Beyond my personal projects I am also working with a friend on an emerging artist’s magazine called, FAQ. Tired of not knowing where a beginning artist should submit work, we decided to create the outlet we were looking for. As most artist do, I support myself with a day job that I hope to one day not need.
About My Work
I began black and white film photography while walking through the streets of Florence, Italy documenting and capturing the liminal moments of light and activity in my short time there. Later on, I started to explore visions of strange beauty and juxtaposition; what imagery and ideas are created from placing white sheets, piles of dirt, and a tub, with the interaction of a girl? After months of imagining and re-imagining these strange “sets” and “scenes” I built and recorded my final vision as a surreal tableau. I am intrigued by interactive work, so I tend to display my images as Photo-Installation.
My most recent group of images, Glimpse, were truthfully an accident. I put my digital 18-135mm lens on my film camera and discovered that there was a strange rounding effect as a result. The images I made were from my daily life: my apartment, trips to the store, a park near a strip mall, however, with the focusing of the round edges they became almost voyeuristic, private moments peered in upon. Exalting the mundane of a shopping cart, a plastic bag, and a cat into fabulous secrets.
To further the feeling of the images I designed an installation in which to view them. Imagine: peering into a hole in the wall, images emerge from the darkness as if eavesdropping on strange, intimate moments. An unplugged fan, a cart in a dark corner, a man laying prone on a couch. do you pull away from these stolen glances? An unwitting voyeur you feel inexorably drawn into this world behind the wall; the first impulse to look made stronger by the enticing silhouette graphic. As one already spying, her placement is twofold, encouraging others to follow suit and at once becoming their shadow, leaving them to spy alone.
