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

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

I’m interested in photography’s ability to function less as a tool for documentation and more as a symbolic representational medium. The resulting images occupy an unstable territory between fiction and reality, sincerity and performance, photography and digital collage.

Rather than delivering fixed meanings, I try to create images that remain psychologically open — works that invite projection, contradiction, and multiple interpretations at once. I try not to overdetermine the images, allowing them space to develop lives and meanings beyond my original intentions. Titles occasionally act as directional cues or conceptual anchors, but I generally try to leave enough space for the viewer to encounter the work through their own experiences, associations, and subconscious readings.

These are just hallucinations -- lies, if you will -- but they mean well!