Newest Collection:

Botany Blues

In my series, Botany Blues, I made a collection of cyanotypes, each with a hand-painted element. The theme of each image is loosely based around travel, with a heavier influence on little elements that I’ve captured on my adventures showcasing how I see the world. My goal in life is to show the world how I see it. I want to leave my fingerprints on this planet through photographs documenting the areas I am lucky to explore. Everyone sees the world in a unique way, and I feel everyone has a right to share their opinion if they so choose to. I just happen to share mine through the visual arts, and more specifically, through photographs.

I am choosing to make my final pieces into cyanotypes rather than as archival pigment prints because I want the viewer of my collection to see that there was a human behind the series. I find that as a photographer, everything must be perfect, but as a human, there are bound to be imperfections. I designed this series to highlight those imperfections, and show the touch of the artist left on each piece, even the unintentional ones. The cyanotype process is not an easy one and it is easily influenced to stray from perfect repetition because of how involved the process of each individual print is. Each image will have a specific hand-painted element, unique to the botany in the region each photograph was originally captured in. I am making these botanical paintings using gouache, an acrylic paint that behaves like watercolor. Adding the paintings shows even more of a connection between my touch as the artist and the final piece, and even my connections to the places I explored.