Originally from Upstate, NY, I now reside in Providence, Rhode Island. Since moving here, the dissonance of new and old, light and dark within the city has significantly shaped my work. Many of my pieces are an experiment and exploration of what I or others might look like if imagination had full reign over reality. Each person or being is a part of my internal world – a reflection of the external – passer-bys on the street, people spotted through bar windows, socialites at events, my face in the bathroom mirror.

As for the butterflies and wings – they have always signified hope to me – not the yearning and pining kind of hope, but rather the growing pains, flitting moments of humor, and beauty found in personal metamorphosis. Recently, I have been fascinated by the concept of integration, both biblically and emotionally. I think demons are only the parts of our souls that we try to cast out. We so often separate ourselves from the pieces of our being we think are unlovable or that make us vulnerable. We detach from emotions and truths in hopes of being “put together,” but conversely these are the very things that make us whole. Those externalized and othered parts are always there, wanting to be acknowledged and to share wisdom if we listen.

A while back I made the decision to try to walk alongside rather than run from these pieces of myself, and I’ll continue to create work that pays homage to the mosaic of monsters I've confronted and integrated along the way.

My photographs, like my collages, are a confessional, and often have a dark-edge – though I find light to be just as captivating, since both need one another to exist. I love the cliché but nevertheless marvelous duality of light and shadow, the merging of the two, and the emergence of some sort of truth about our lived experiences as a result... I think art is a powerful tool to tell others what we notice most about existence.