ARTIST STATEMENT : Photography

Much has been written about photography as an art form. There is significant critique that a photograph is simply a document, depicting a composition as it was in the moment of the image capture. This definition limits the role of the photograph to a tool of preservation. I see an expanded role for photography where the image presented has been reconstructed, altered, and expanded upon. 

My work explores photographs as memories of a new imagined landscape; an alternate memory of place. Reshaping my photographs is a liberation that allows me to better communicate how it feels to experience the vastness of our environments and the dreamlike quality of remembering how it was. Challenging the notion of the photograph as document, I do not seek to present exactly what I saw through the lens, or even something close to how I felt at that time. Instead, I choose to embrace the discrepancy of fragmented memory, and recolor, recompose, and reimagine what was there.