My practice operates within the symbolist and surrealist tradition, drawing from late 19th and early 20th century painting, staged photography, theater, and cinematic image-making. I create constructed photographic tableaux that blend psychological inquiry, mythology, folklore, dark humor, and cultural criticism.

Using a digital technical camera, optical manipulation, and compositing techniques rooted in darkroom traditions, I splice together fragments of photographed reality — combining multiple exposures, layered perspectives, and spatial distortions to create scenes that could not exist within a single moment or physical space. While digitally constructed, the images are built entirely from self-captured source material.

I'm interested in photography's ability to function less as documentation and more as symbolic representation. The resulting images occupy an unstable territory between fiction and reality, sincerity and performance, photography and collage.

Rather than delivering fixed meanings, I try to create psychologically open work — images that invite projection, contradiction, and multiple interpretations at once. I try not to overdetermine them, leaving space for viewers to encounter the work through their own associations. Titles occasionally act as directional cues, but the images are meant to develop lives beyond my original intentions.

These are just hallucinations — lies, if you will — but they mean well.