Thursday, December 26, 2013


I hope to have my video uploaded by the end of the day. I have been slaving over it. Other than that I have been reading, writing, printing and everything else to keep up with my last meeting with Caleb Charland my mentor for this residency on Sunday and the next residency which starts in a week!!!! Thank goodness for vacation. Here are some new photos that I have been lazy and not posting on the blog recently. :) Cant wait to post the video, it took forever but was really fun to put together. Stay tuned.




Tuesday, December 17, 2013

I promise I have been busy! So busy I dont have time to blog. Too much to read, write, photograph and we you get the idea. I have prints from my negatives, I have scans, I have a lot done and yet there is always more to do. Winding down this semester. Hopefully I ll have a spare moment to blog what I have done in full detail during my upcoming vacation.


Tuesday, December 10, 2013



some videos of the images that were taken the other day. 

Monday, December 9, 2013


Images that were taken yesterday showing the gestures that i have been doing. pressing, juicing, painting, and i have yet to capture walking into rain and a couple other gestures.



























 Latest of this print. Was made yesterday and I am letting it dry out. I think the squeezing is the most exciting for colors and textures.
SHowing the decay I have been photographing. Doesnt do it justice. Film goes out tomorrow.
 Freezing rain on the coated paper.


Thursday, December 5, 2013

Map making

I have been printing digitally I can assure you of that. I will be in the darkroom this weekend and shooting another roll of film to send two out on Monday. Finding it hard to stay focused and not get frustrated at this point. I am looking for peers and mentors to review and discuss my work. I am looking forward to the next residency. Here are some images of what I have going on in my basement.




what I am doing is trying to remember which piece lead me to another piece and so on. I am trying to solve a mystery and I attempt this three times in these images. I added more to the last attempt just to see how that would play in. 

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Spending the day scanning again and editing for a big printing day tomorrow. WHile scanning I think....what about layers? What if I was to scan in all the pomegranate images and align them into their own print....what would happen. Last week I made some digital prints that was successful and I have been drawing in my head how I am going to go about this "mapping" idea. I may be saving this until I get good scans of all the materials because I really think I want to be interactive with it and draw and make holes through the images showing the journey I have been on.

Thats all for now, tomorrow I will be printing large images. Looking forward to it. Also exited for some snow that I have not been able to capture on my coated papers.

Stay tuned....

Wednesday, November 20, 2013



Taking down the wall. Building cork board slabs to investigate my abundance of swatches and images. Test images of the work in progress and some images of the old wall that just came down.


new project:





Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Black and Whites from this weekend.

Taking these pictures I realized of another avenue I wanted to travel. Making prints of the leaves in the darkroom and assembling them together to create a large image of that one leaf. Almost like David Hockneys work.



Ill have to be careful with my time now because its running short....I will be experimenting this idea over my December break most likely. Unless I can get to it before. :)

Here are the images and then I am off to Home Depot not for a house project but to see about boards to attach my cork board to to make a large grid of these swatches downstairs in the basement.




Monday, November 18, 2013


This image is three put together showing the decomposing of the organic matter I have placed inside each jar. I have yet to photograph them again as they continue to loose their color and form. Right now I am placing them in my own personal environment and living with them along with photographing each individual one and the group not only in studio but in its place in the house as well. 

Here are a couple videos of me from todays work. I am trying to really play with position and how the video is made. I hope these seem more well composed than the last ones. 

Saturday I also spent the day in the darkroom making prints from leaves as negatives inside the enlarger. I hope to continue this exploration tomorrow as well. They are black and white images maybe ill get a picture tomorrow on the blog. 






old video from last week.



Tuesday, November 12, 2013

SPE Conference/Mentor Meeting/Work

Hi all. It has been a busy weekend. SPE Conference in Portland ME and I was also able to meet with my mentor Caleb Charland and we had a great discussion on my work and where I may be headed. Working on a couple ideas right now. Just ordered some cork board to put up around my walls and tack the images or should we say archive I have built of studies. Currently right now I am working on taping these studies up in my bedroom on my wall until I wait for the cork board to come in. I have a darkroom day planned for Saturday which should be good where I will be making photograms and prints organic matter through the negative carrier to see what kind of images I can get. Really excited. Here are a couple videos of me taping. * this video has not yet been edited and my dog got a hold of a chicken caracas and was eating the bones from it so I got angry with her******

Images of the "completed" wall. Almost all my studies are on this wall but not everything. Was originally going to just make the walls according to certain studies but after a meeting with Alison today I wanted to sit with these all a little more. See how they all react to one another and look at them all each day and maybe rearrange them as the days go by.