/// ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHY

CONSTRUCTIONS
Still-lifes constructed from everyday and found objects to create a scene or illustration.

HAITIAN FACES
Vignettes taken while on a mission trip to build a school in Port-au-Prince.

PORTRAITS OF LIGHT
Happy accidents and intentional compositions alike. Explores of both artificial and natural light sources using a variety of techniques—long exposures, shaking the camera, and photographing moving objects, and more. The result is a rainbow of textures and moods, sure to please the eye.

SELF AS COLOR
Self-portraits taken to capture the mood of various colors in the spectrum. Care was taken to choose locations and costumes to evoke and challenge notions of emotions and purposes of each color.

TOY JOY
Taken with various toy or plastic cameras; images usually contain light-leak artifacts.

TRIPTYCHS
Portraits of individuals and their relationship to the landscape and each other. Created using a toy HOLGA camera, and utilizing in-camera multiple exposure as a technique. Film developed by hand, then processed digitally.

WOMEN WITH ICONS
An ongoing series depicting Eastern Orthodox women with icons of their patron saints. Though the Eastern Orthodox church is very traditional in its beliefs, it has a long history of recognizing the contributions that women make to society and to their faith. Through the recorded lives of the saints, individual believers can learn about the plethora of female saints commemorated in Orthodoxy, many of whom are depicted in icons--paintings--that line the walls of Orthodox churches. Upon joining the Orthodox church, individual believers make a connection with the saints by taking on a saint's name. This saint becomes their patron saint, protecting them and interceding for them before the throne of God; a living and deep connection to the past.

/// ABOUT THE DESIGN

ALIEN CAPSULE
What I would send into space to tell aliens what life on earth is about.

BOOKS
A book of poems to my husband on the occasion of our marriage, followed by a novel paper-construction, followed by an itty-bitty exploration of a tiny paper space.

FREDERICA'S ALPHABET
Inspired by the phenomenon of synaesthesia (the combining of sense perceptions in the brain). This book explores the particular colors, genders, and personalities that Frederica, a real-life synaesthete, associates with each letter. On the back of each letter card are the actual descriptions of the letters' personalities.

ILLUSTRATION
Various illustrations, mostly centered around words, meanings, and contradictions.

PRINT
Printed design pieces done while employed at National Fatherhood Initiative, Catholic Review, and freelancing.

PRINTMAKING
Linoleum block prints based on Eastern Orthodox iconography. Specifically, icons of Christ as Bridgroom, the Theotokos (Mary), the Trinity (also known as the Hospitality of Abraham) and the Resurrection.

SKETCHBOOK
What my day-to-day noodlings look like.

THE FOUR LOVES
Based on C.S. Lewis' book of the same name. Each love (storge, philia, agape, and eros) has its own tiny box, with a paper construction inside meant to evoke the differences and particularities of that love. The boxes are constructed from photographs, and sit together in their own nesting box.