These are images from my 2020 exhibit at the Pump House Regional Arts Center in La Crosse, WI.
We all have tales of “small memories” — forgotten places, discarded possessions, collected objects. Connections to their original owners long gone, the memories are remnants of what made a person or place unique.
In this show, I capture and “reconstruct” the subject, giving it a new life that does not have a defined sense of time or place. The nostalgic images result in a universal backdrop for the viewer to recollect similar memories from their own experiences.
An ongoing project featuring wet plate images shot in and around the Driftless Area. The goal is to use my 19th century photographic process to tell stories of the Driftless, its history and inhabitants.
The wet plate collodion process produces haunting images especially suited to portraiture. Every portrait is a one-off individual photo, an instant heirloom to keep for future generations.
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This series is an homage to the Victorian fascination with natural history and collecting. And, although evoking a different time and place, the assemblages remind us of the ongoing necessity to understand our natural world.
The series features found organic objects from the Driftless Area of Wisconsin.
A work in progress exploring the plight of Latvian refugees after WWII. Found objects—in this case refugee suitcases and other containers—are photographed and restructured as totems, new objects scarred by the process of their own creation.
Their original use outlived, these objects become symbols of families also restructured through space and time.
