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Resume

Since my last show, I’ve been immersed in the language of cyanotype—letting light and time speak through paper. My images begin as quiet encounters: a window in a police station, tangled branches, drifting clouds, a shattered screen, a single carrot—ordinary things that catch my eye and hold it. I photograph them, drawn not by their meaning but by a certain pull, something visual. Through Photoshop, I reshape them—distort, layer, reimagine—until they become something funkier, stranger, more intimate. These altered visions find form as cyanotypes or sculptural Artists’ Books.

Some years ago, I became entranced by a bar of soap left on a sink outside my studio. That soap transformed itself into many prints, many books. The source is rarely the point. What matters is the transformation—the moment something familiar slips into the unfamiliar, and a new image begins to breathe.