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Asking oneself “who am I?” is something we all do but in today’s culture you could imagine some people having multiple answers for who they are depending on where we are talking about.
When I looked in the mirror a few years ago I asked myself a slightly different question, I said “Holy shit, that’s me?!”. This has happened many times to me; confused by the person in the mirror. It’s me, no doubt, but it’s not who I feel I am. In wanting...

I’ve always been drawn to photographs by Edward Curtis. They seem to capture a place and time that seems even distant beyond the years when the photos were shot. I remember reading at one point that Curtis would embellish some of the pictures with items...

This project started innocently enough. I wanted to see if it was possible to create a skull chair that was satisfying to look at. I don't know why I became obsessed with it but I noticed that there were two types of skull chairs out there. One type...

This project was started nearly a year ago. It was one of those that was slow to get rolling and even after it was completed I still sat with it for a while. That's probably because it's a bit dark and I wasn't sure how I felt about it.
I ran into an article online a while back about Victorian death photos. These were pictures that people took with the recently deceased and not in a coffin but they would dress up and pose the person. Kind of like a final way to remember them. Around...