By honoring the intricate magic that exists all around us, my photos seek to depict the beauty which lies at the heart of solitude and silence. Through communing with the natural world, and by crystallizing its subtleties within a photograph, I enjoy exploring the delicate anonymity that is born from losing one’s self in a moment, and the inner peace which follows. 

While attending Penland School of Craft during the summer of 2019, my objective was to create a new body of work which could tangibly depict my recurrent daydreams of voids and spaces between realities, through intuitive experimentation. With a 4x5 camera that I hand built, along with my new knowledge of the 19th century wet plate collodion process, I created both paper negative and wet plate photographs of portals amidst the forest; thresholds to a sometimes dark yet alluring otherworld, where time is happily suspended. My portals were made to represent a transformational space that is found in between perceptions, accessible to those who seek it; a dream of a dream through the trees.