My practice uses photography as a point of departure for exploration, transformation, and visual inquiry. I am less interested in photography as a means of faithfully documenting a subject than in its capacity to shift perception—to move an observed image into something more ambiguous, intuitive, and open to interpretation. The photographs I make often become catalysts for further work, leading me away from the literal and toward abstraction, memory, and association.

My recent works study the relationship between place and image. These photographic collages construct mental maps shaped by distance, fragments of place, and the rhythms and forms of the natural world. The images exist somewhere between observation and invention, inviting a consideration of how we remember, experience, and construct a sense of place.

Juniper Studio takes its name from my grandparents’ Juniper Farm in Virginia, where I spent my summers rambling around, unchecked. Those early experiences cultivated a sustained attentiveness to the natural world and to the subtle relationships between pattern, color, form, and place. I continue to draw from that way of looking, allowing close observation to become a means of discovering connections and meanings that are not immediately visible.

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