WANDERINGS
I’m so lucky to be able to make a living from my art. But it does come with the challenge of finding inspiration and staying excited about the craft. Nothing invigorates me creatively like traveling to a new place. Wandering leads to wonder.
TYPES
WANDERINGS
WANDERINGS
ON THE ROAD
There’s nothing I love more than the open road. Not to humble brag, but I’ve got a 20-year-old pickup truck that I’ve made quite comfortable for sleeping in. America’s size and scope and sheer variety of landscapes call to me constantly. I make time each spring to experience a new corner of Americana majesty. Tracing Route 66’s decrepit iconography all the way to Albuquerque with my best friend. Finding desolate beauty in the stark nowhere of Colorado’s San Luis Valley with my beloved partner. Packing up a sibling’s shit to help them move to Philadelphia and start a new chapter.
The miles roll by as I balance my coffee and electrolytes and occasionally a little nicotine as a treat. Finding the landscapes and structures people have built and that have grounded communities for generations keeps me moving forward.
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” – Betty Smith
CITIES
Aren’t cities something? Growing up deeply rural in the Missouri Ozarks, I was raised to fear them. But I’ve come to believe they hold the best of us. Where else can you find the spiciest rendition of the melting pot stew we get to share together? Seeing a collective identity emerge from millions of individuals all calling one place home. From the high rises to skid row, there’s beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see and hearts to feel.
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.” -Italo Calvino
35MM FILM
I came to 35mm film late in my photography journey. Once I began practicing this more ancient craft, it taught me so much so fast. It connects me more deeply to the long storied history of photography. It showed me the value of taking my time to frame, to truly compose an image. To nail it in the moment instead of fixing it in post. There’s a depth of feeling in film that for all my presets and filters, just can’t be found in the digital world.
“The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the person who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.” -John Steinbeck
