Lightworker
"Natural History" bearing witness to the beauty and the brutality of life on Earth. Using my original photography layered with specimens from museum collections and birds killed when striking buildings in Washington, DC during the migration season, I feel myself working through the overwhelming grief of world events, never getting any closer to making sense of senseless manmade destruction. I almost feel like this series, and life in general, should come with a trigger warning, because at least for me, the news of the day is stirring up a lot of my own past griefs- the loss of my twin daughter chief among them. But I urge myself not to look away from the world's sorrow, but instead, the deepest thing we can do with trauma is to transmute pain into creative action that helps ourselves and other people feel their feelings instead of hiding them away unhealed.
Lightworker
"Natural History" bearing witness to the beauty and the brutality of life on Earth. Using my original photography layered with specimens from museum collections and birds killed when striking buildings in Washington, DC during the migration season, I feel myself working through the overwhelming grief of world events, never getting any closer to making sense of senseless manmade destruction. I almost feel like this series, and life in general, should come with a trigger warning, because at least for me, the news of the day is stirring up a lot of my own past griefs- the loss of my twin daughter chief among them. But I urge myself not to look away from the world's sorrow, but instead, the deepest thing we can do with trauma is to transmute pain into creative action that helps ourselves and other people feel their feelings instead of hiding them away unhealed.