statement:
My photographs are part of an ongoing exploration of the landscape, in all of its manifestations, from the architecture of suburban strip malls to the seascape painting that hangs above a living room couch. How we shape our landscape and how we, in turn, are shaped by it is one of the ideas that interests me most. While in Chicago, I began work on a series entitled “Interior Dialogues” which examined the relationship between landscape and interior space. The placement of artificial plants and floral wallpaper contrasted with the idea of a grander Nature, which was implicitly outside the photographic frame. Another project titled “Copycat” focused on the suburban landscape as a backdrop for a teen suicide cluster in the late 1980’s.

Most recently, I have turned the camera to areas of suburban/exurban development and have been examining the intersection of the natural and the artificial within this highly constructed landscape. I have been interested in the areas behind “big box” stores and malls, how this architecture does or does not relate to the landscape, and the pockets of nature that have escaped this development.

education:
1999 M.F.A.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1994 B.A.
The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

Born Atlanta, GA. Lives and works in Nashville, TN.