Images in the series “Where Light Divides the Holler,” based around anecdotes from my own life, enforce human behavior - run from pain, run towards pleasure. With characters moving through pain and ecstasy, humor and suffering, scenes mirror the tension found in experiences in relation to addiction and female fatigue. Dissecting the binary between pain and pleasure, the desire for an acknowledgment of fear, images range from the beauty of a female communion with self, to the unsettling morbidity of an all too familiar dread. Some images are made in life, and later realizing I was working towards something I already knew, and others are staged, based around memories, feelings, or my own experiences with adversity and addiction being raised in Appalachia.
Shown at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia in March 2024
Painkillers (2024)
IV (Les), 2023
My Youngest Sisters Clothes, 2023
Teenage Morning Glory, 2023
Our First and Last Family Supper, 2023
Rotten Apple Dumpster Dive, 2023
Hung and Strung Out, 2023
Jefferson #Q, 2023
Angel Band, 2023
Perm Burn, 2023
Dunce 2020, 2023
If I Die, 2023