I attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Ceramics and 3-D (Sculpture) Major in 1996.
In an installation sculpture assignment, I incorporated photographs. I had no idea how to produce photographs in the darkroom but I was determined to learn. I learned the traditional wet darkroom process by reading a book and taking it step by step. After my work was reviewed it was warmly suggested that I take a photography class. My first photography teacher at UNLV introduced me to a handmade pinhole camera and I never looked back. The idea of experimenting with new ways of making pictures was intriguing and something I pursued greatly throughout my academic career and beyond.
In my most recent work I have been traveling through desert environments from my home near Philadelphia to observe, with my camera, the vast and open landscape and to explore the way people inhabit that space. Explorations of the American West was my return to an environment that is ever changing. The communication rests in the intersection of American western physiography, industry, and culture as it plays out in those environments.
In an installation sculpture assignment, I incorporated photographs. I had no idea how to produce photographs in the darkroom but I was determined to learn. I learned the traditional wet darkroom process by reading a book and taking it step by step. After my work was reviewed it was warmly suggested that I take a photography class. My first photography teacher at UNLV introduced me to a handmade pinhole camera and I never looked back. The idea of experimenting with new ways of making pictures was intriguing and something I pursued greatly throughout my academic career and beyond.
In my most recent work I have been traveling through desert environments from my home near Philadelphia to observe, with my camera, the vast and open landscape and to explore the way people inhabit that space. Explorations of the American West was my return to an environment that is ever changing. The communication rests in the intersection of American western physiography, industry, and culture as it plays out in those environments.