Documenting the biosystems I encounter is important to my practice. Most of this happens outdoors, however I am also interested in the biological contents of refrigerators and restaurants, microscopic biomes, houseplants, pets, skin conditions, etc. Photography has become a way for me to honor the beauty of life and ubiquity of ecosystems. It can be trite to marvel after Darwin’s idea that evolution filled earth with “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful,” yet this phenomenon is truly and deeply fascinating.

Universal access to cameras and publishing platforms has simultaneously cheapened and elevated the medium of photographic image. In terms of my personal art practice, I am underwhelmed by thinking of my photographs as terminal imagery. Instead, I often use them as original focal points to manipulate, frame, reproduce, or draw from.