Works from my most recent solo show at ACRE Projects in Chicago IL, A Device for Seeing.

When you have lost something, you hold it in your mind so tight, and will the registration of memory and past to align.

When she lost it, she held it in her mind so tight for so long. 

Finally, she compressed it into a pebble.  Luckily, it was in the hope that there was more to come.

This body of work finds itself caught between photography, painting and collage by employing experimental print processes, painting, drawing, and removal of the ink and paper surface.

Images shot in medium format film (Mamiya RB67), digitally printed and hand altered in my studio at Shape Shop in the South Loop of Chicago.