Artist Statement

For nearly two decades, my artwork has explored the intersections of history, landscape, and representation. Whether photographing Revolutionary War battlefields, reimagining the U.S./Mexico border, investigating the legacy of a 19th-century Jewish immigrant circus, or reflecting on how photography mediates my understanding of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, I examine how images shape public perception of place and historical narrative.

Formally trained in photography, my practice is now multidisciplinary. Text, printmaking, moving images, book arts, and installations are all important aspects to my work. I’m particularly interested in the materiality of the image—its pixels, Ben-Day dots, paint, or projections—and how these qualities impact the construction of meaning. My work often layers archival, vernacular, and original imagery to create complex visual fields that compress time and source, prompting viewers to navigate multiple readings simultaneously.

I am an image maker. As such, I am interested in how images function: how they circulate, how they inform collective memory, and how they re-present history. By working with both original and found material, I engage in a form of visual archaeology—excavating, recontextualizing, and reassembling images in order to offer new interpretations of seemingly fixed subjects.