India

This collection of photos was taken in 2018 and are from the cities of Jaipur, Mumbai, and my husband's family state of Kerala.

These photos are not just a record of life in India and its complexities, but these images are a reflection of my interstate of consciousness at that time of life. We were at a cross roads and were looking for guidance. As harsh as many may see life in India, she does have a gentle mysterious side that allows the multiplicity of life there to thrive. It is that gentleness I felt and aimed to express through these photographs.

After 4 weeks of being in India's embrace, we returned home ready to face the challenges of lost employment - to starting a new chapter out from under the thumb of corporate life. Following what we felt was our next calling in life, we started a small family business.

Looking at these photos in 2025 and remembering those dark days for us personally, I am reminded and encouraged that as we collectively face dark challenging times, let us be that gentle embrace for our communities where the multiplicity of life may thrive in compassion.

When the Earth Dreams

This is an ongoing series that explores the idea if the Earth could tell us what she dreamed last night, what would she say, what would her dreams look like, and would we be included in her dreams?

This series of photos explores the idea of the Earth as a Dreamer. Through slow shutter speed, intentional camera movement, and multi-exposure these photos capture various landscapes in a dream-like manner, in hopes that the viewer feels connected to the Earth as she dreams.

Land Ethic

LAND ETHIC - “enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals,

or collectively: the land.”

The Land Ethic by Aldo Leopold

This series was created in response to my lifelong love affair with nature, Aldo Leopold’s essay The Land Ethic, and the Japanese concept "mottainai” or zero waste living. Like other conservation conscious folk, I am alarmed at the rate in which wild places and natural resources are being struck down and trampled for profit.

Even though the photos in this collection document various landscapes, this series is not documentary photography. Instead the idea is to capture the essence of the landscape in a more dream-like manner, with intention to connect the viewer to the essences or soul of the landscape.

When our viewpoint shifts from seeing nature as a consumable product for profit to seeing nature as an extension of ourselves, we not only make different decisions on what we purchase, we also see ourselves differently. We no longer are individuals facing the world alone through our own strength. Our community is extended beyond homosapiens to include the land, plants, animals, collectively the environment which is the source of our wellbeing. The viewer is invited to see nature as an extension of themself.

The goal for this body of work is to raise funds for environmental non-profits that strive to protect natural resources through education, land acquisition, and habitat restoration.

Through a Glass Darkly

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY is an exploration of my inner identity after receiving a life altering medical diagnosis. This series began with the notion, I have a limited amount of time in this physical form and I am more than my name, what I do, who I’m married to, or even who I think I am. The question I wanted to explore more fully was “who am I at the core of my being or spirit?” Photography was the medium I used to capture this inner journey.

While grappling with the fleeting nature of my physical existence I often felt like a ghost - a whisper of a human, where the lines between my physical form and spirit became blurred. It was this blurring I wanted to express in camera.

Although there are interior photos in this series, I connected more deeply to the stillness within myself while in wild solitary places. While creating these photographs, I often felt an inner shift of knowing. I not only felt deeply connected to the environment that I was in, but I also felt deeply connected to the source of life. As I became more open to this source of life the fear of losing my physical form began to fade. During this journey the spirit world became as real to me as the physical world I was standing in.