I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. My interest in photography started in high school and grew immensely during college. With a lot of investigating and researching, I eventually realized WHY exactly I am drawn to the medium. Photography has this strange, overwhelming connection to death. "Not only does a photograph function as an object that can, and often times will, outlive the person/s being photographed, it also captures time, a specific moment in time that will never return again in the same way. Consequently, the fleeting moment becomes the object of my desire. Just like our fleeting selves, these moments, memories, and mysteries within us become lost as our body begins to breakdown. Thus, photographs function as an attempt to capture the impermanence of life and make it permanent" - An excerpt from my artist statement.
One of my professors, Naomi Shersty, directed me towards the book, Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. Barthes shares this strange curiosity and interest in photography as it relates to death. It is one of the many books I continue to pull much of my inspiration from.
My intentions for this blog are to explore and investigate the many questions I have about life and death in visual form. I will also attempt new bodies of work with the intent to finish them once all possible angles and directions have been explored.
