My work explores liminality—the in-between spaces where we exist during moments of transition, neither fully in one state nor another. Through camera obscura photography, digital glitch aesthetics, durational documentation, experimental sound art, and transmission art, I examine experiences of transition and becoming.
My interdisciplinary practice is rooted in exploring the relationship between analog and digital processes, stability and entropy, nature and technology. I reflect ordinary life and its ups and downs, attracted to the simple ebb and flow of daily existence—whether curious, carefree, or even boring—searching for the unusual and in-between moments that reveal the extraordinary within the everyday.
My ongoing project Becoming documents a single tree over fifteen years, creating photo mosaics that collapse 1600 images into single viewing experiences—each mosaic a different recombination of the same photographs, suggesting that meaningful growth occurs through sustained commitment to returning again and again to the spaces that hold our questions. My Soul in the Machine series explores digital corruption and glitch aesthetics, viewing glitch as a natural wilderness in the machine that reveals the illusion of the digital era.
I earned my MFA in Mass Communication and Media Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and have taught audio production, sound design, and photography. I serve as Operations Director for the Paducah Symphony Orchestra at Williams Symphony Hall and am a member of the Paducah Arts Alliance. I contribute to the SLO Radio series, broadcasting collaborative sound art performances in Paducah's arts district, and perform with Perception Project, a collaborative collective that creates live audio interpretations of visual art-making, amplifying the sounds of charcoal, brushes, and other tactile implements into an immersive soundscape alongside the visual work. Most recently, Perception Project performed at S. R. Crown Hall on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. My work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, and my images have been featured as cover art for Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. I live and work in Paducah, Kentucky, where I've been married for 33 years, raised four children, and continue to explore the liminal spaces of everyday life.