Fog colored hands (2025) is a collection created over an 8 year period on Nantucket, MA. The title of the work is taken from the Mary Oliver poem, “On Losing a House".
As the natural processes of the island shift seasonally and generationally, so shifts the identity and character of Nantucket. The series is a reflection of the growth on island, the present moment, the possible future trajectories for Nantucket, and nature’s complete indifference to these developments.
This series has been made into a zine with the intention of creating a larger photobook in the future.
NIGREDO (2021 - PRESENT)
In the hermetic tradition, the first step in the Great Work is known as Nigredo; a blackening, putrefaction and decomposition of the Prima Materia into a homogenous, black substance.
It is a reckoning period in the process of individuation; a dark night of the soul, a painful confrontation of the shadow that is necessary in order to produce the Philosopher’s Stone.
In this series, the subjects are discarded cans of American brands, collected along backroads, near old party spots and among the dunes on island.
Decades have passed in void, in obscurity, entropy shaping their carefully designed and focus grouped uniformity into truly individual creations. They complete the cycle and are returned to the tailgate of a truck for analysis, for consistency in formal composition and to signal their transmutation into objects of deeper consideration and value.
COLOSSAL VITALITY (2022) is a compact series during the off-season, focused on a 1 square mile radius of the Cliffside Beach Club on Nantucket, MA. The title of the series is derived from passages in the quintessential American novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’. This area is home to some the most elite and impressive properties on the island.
For five months, the area is pristine. The dedication of the landscapers and homeowners to collectively create an idyllic setting is realized. Come winter, the spell dissolves. The colossal vitality of the summertime orchestration fades until the following spring. This series was the subject of a show at Colonna Contemporary in May 2023.
