There are experiences and ideas that I find challenging to describe with words, and photography gives me access to a powerful visual language for expressing these thoughts. I use my art practice to navigate a reality that often feels precarious and fraught with existential questions. Considerations of meaning and purpose in the larger context of time, remaining open to connection while knowing the impermanence of all things and the inevitability of loss. How some of the most universally beautiful subjects are also some of the most bittersweet, and encounters with the surreal often feel uniquely spiritual. Creating a photograph brings me into deeper dialogue with these ideas. Sometimes the results are clear and concrete, sometimes they are abstract and ephemeral.

Photography is a way to intercept time, to bear witness to its passing in ways that our day-to-day lives often overlook. I am fascinated by how the passage of time marks our environments; time is textural in its physical expression, but has no singular form. I like to use my photography to consider how the longer a view of time we take, the more mysterious its properties become.

These themes emerge in my work through a sense of pensive observation. Mixing natural beauty with visual evidence of an unavoidable impermanence, documentary photography blended with abstract experimentation; I am always in pursuit of images that reveal more the longer one looks.

I approach my work as an act of discovery. On the rare occasion that I have a finished image in mind, I am excited by the prospect that the process may lead me in unexpected directions. I prefer to work with less; natural light whenever possible, limited lens choices, making the most of what the moment provides. Working within deliberately chosen constraints forces me to push my creative limits, which I find often yields particularly satisfying results.

For still life and studio work I use a simple off-camera lighting setup, often mixed with available natural light. My most recent studio work incorporates the use of deliberate distortion, photographing through textural materials and layering reflections to emphasize a sense of the surreal.

Working with abstracted subjects, I watch for ways in which form, colour and tonality can be used to create a satisfying, compositional tension. Unexpected juxtapositions and textural details are also important considerations. No matter the scale of the abstract study I am working within, these elements add depth and balance to the body of work as a whole.

On-location and when travelling, my photography is anchored by capturing a sense of place. I look for broad contextual compositions and interesting details to round out a travel story. My experiences living in coastal environments and on the Canadian prairie have taught me how distinctly natural light is shaped by latitude, seasons, and an interaction with concentrated elements like water or dust. This sense of a unique local atmosphere is something I work to articulate throughout my documentary and travel photography.

When photographing human-built environments and people I seek gestures that convey a sense of mood and movement. These may be communicated through architectural forms or human activities. Incorporating quiet details and moments that often go unseen helps me to build a story within a composition. I am especially interested in spaces that convey a strong sense of scale, the human form rendered small yet powerful in its environmental context.

My art tends toward a deeper consideration of the merits of uncertainty, observing and embracing the constant flux of it all. I enjoy finding beauty in the darkness of existential questions and relish an overwhelming sense of the infinite. I am seeking solace in the questions themselves, using abstraction, tension, and contradiction to explore contemplative moments that may cause discomfort or awe. I am offering an invitation to linger in the possibilities of what can not be fully described with words, and to welcome the unknowable, finding something personally meaningful through an observational experience.