Before I was a designer + photographer I was a dancer. This training has informed both my life and my work. In dance your body is your tool and you train it through discipline to create meaning through motion. Every thought and feeling has a corresponding gesture and it is your job to find it. This was my earliest visual training and it continues to inform my work.

I continue to love motion. The action | reaction and all its variations. When I left dance I first went into film editing. The movement inherent in cutting a film reminded me of choreographing: you look for the rhythm, the repetition, the moments of stillness… I also love capturing the motion through the still frame of the camera. Photography for me is not just the shot but the manipulation of it in post-production with an intention to reveal or conceal and finding what is off balance in the moment.

I don’t so much have an aesthetic as a belief in aesthetics. Beauty, even in the ugliest of ideas, beauty, wit, a light touch. I don’t have a single process – if I make, begin to make a thing, it is usually small, a fragment, an investigation, something that intrigues me – it might mean I have to learn yet another language or technique, for the thing seems to tell me how it best wants to show up in the world.

I have an MFA from Cranbrook and a dog named Nasdaq. If you would like a copy of my CV please send me an email and I'll be happy to oblige.