The Virtual Gallery

 Statement A wonderful mentor once told me: “It is better to aim for the stars and drag your feet in the treetops than to aim for the treetops and drag your feet in the mud.”  Aiming high and dreaming big is something I learned early on in life.  I grew up in the midst of… [Read More]

Statement In Nepal, and according to Hinduism, the entry into adulthood is tied to a loss of purity.  In some rural areas, menstrual women are exiled for a week, a practice known as Chhaupadi Partha. When they are on their period they are not allowed to enter their houses, visit the temples, attend festivities, cook,… [Read More]

Statement The preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is a series of aphorisms about art and beauty, including the declaration that “all art is at once surface and symbol.” If all art is at once surface and symbol, I create symbolic surfaces. Through the use of photo-collage, still life, and re-photography, my… [Read More]

Project Statement At the height of the AIDS epidemic experimental drug treatments lead to the invention of modern antiretroviral medications that keep the virus suppressed, but these drugs would have never become available had there not been individuals willing to receive them on an experimental basis. This body of work titled Hard Breath Volume 2… [Read More]

Project Statement During this past summer I was feeling a bit detached from photographing myself. This was a result of social unrest and the pandemic. In June, I went back home to Alabama for a couple of months to be with family. I spent a lot of time between my Grandmother and my Mom’s home,… [Read More]

Statement While in the throes of grief I sought to visually express what was so difficult for others to hear. I had suffered a traumatic loss.  In addition to grief, I was experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which resulted in severe brain disfunction. My brain simply could not make sense of my new reality, I… [Read More]

Statement This series is inspired by my poem ”Hidden Realms”. The setting for many of the images is a fairytale landscape whose inhabitants are clouded in ambiguity. The ghostlike figures are reflections of the later years when beauty and youth begin to fade. They embody the feeling that one is becoming invisible and yet still… [Read More]

Statement I have spent the last three years photographing Tangier Island off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay which is progressively being claimed by the waters surrounding it an average of nine acres every year. Tangier is projected to be uninhabitable in 50 years if nothing is done about it. When the residents are forced to… [Read More]

Statement Memento Vivere- Remember to Live My recent work expands an ongoing investigation of the interaction of memory, the passage of time, and of identity. I am keenly interested in how memory forms our sense of being and how that can be affected by the contradictions that the past and the present pose. In the… [Read More]

Statement I first became fascinated by the complexity of the home as I observed rows and rows of old Dutch colonial structures, while working on my first book, Pabean Passage. These old colonial structures showed a distinct East-Indies architecture, an adaptation of European architecture to the tropical climate of Indonesia, which gained its popularity in the mid 18th… [Read More]