My work stems from a childhood spent building my own toys and costumes. Often inspired by antique or used objects, I construct still-lives and tableaus with the intention of being photographed. These installations represent my psychological state of mind, or perspective of the world.

A love of handmade things has inspired me to build my own cameras and has drawn me to work with antiquarian photographic processes, particularly wet-plate collodion and albumen printing. These processes tend to be much slower, and have lengthy exposure times, allowing me to enter a more contemplative or meditative state while in the studio. The ethereal image quality of these processes feed the rich atmosphere of my photographs.