My work explores fragility, resilience, loss, persistence, and the passage of time. Working with light, shadow, and imagery drawn from the natural world—plants, flowers, water, and sky—I investigate the beauty and melancholy inherent in change and the temporal nature of life. I embrace chance and surprise as active elements in the work, allowing observation and process to shape the outcome.

My practice moves between photography, printmaking, collage, photomontage, and the construction of paper objects and boxes. I manipulate photographic imagery through folding, cutting, layering, sewing, overprinting, and reassembly, transforming two-dimensional photographs into faceted and sculptural forms, including crystal-like structures, octahedrons, truncated tetrahedrons, and square trapezohedrons. These transformations disrupt the photographic image, shifting it between representation and abstraction and inviting a different way of seeing the natural world.

I am drawn to the tension between control and chance, structure and play, recognition and mystery. Through constructed photographs, three-dimensional folded forms, and historical photographic processes such as cyanotype, platinum printing, and polymer gravure, I create objects that hover between image and artifact. The work seeks to offer a new lens through which to encounter the natural world—as a complex, mutable, and mysterious realm in continual transformation. 

I am a three-time recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and was the inaugural recipient of the 2020 McKnight Fellowship for Book Artists. My work is held in the collections of The Getty Research Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Hirsch Library and The Newberry Library, among others. I hold a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.