"Thresholds" is an invitation. A reminder. A celebration. A plea. It is about salvation.

This body of work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world at a critical moment when both individual and planetary health hang in the balance.

While these images appear to be about the dunes, they are not, at least, not solely. After photographing mountains, deserts, and lakes, I found that only the dunes dissolve place into abstraction. They become unmoored from specificity and allow for something more essential: a meditation on the human condition in relationship with the natural world.

I make these pictures to honor what it has meant to me to spend time in wild, liminal places—spaces that evoke humility, reverence, and wonder. These are not backdrops; they are thresholds. In these places, we are made aware of our minuteness and our impermanence. We are reminded that forces far greater than us shape the world. There is something sublime, even otherworldly that arises in that recognition. I truly believe spending time in nature is our salvation.

In a post-pandemic world, where we've swung from isolation to overdrive, I see a growing disconnect from one another, from community, from meaning, and especially from the natural world. This portfolio responds to that disconnection. It asks: What does it mean to have access to the kind of space that humbles us, that restores us? What happens when we lose that access or take it for granted?

I am deeply concerned about rising anxiety, depression, and alienation, and equally concerned about our disregard for protecting these sacred natural environments. Our psychological and ecological crises are inseparable. We cannot heal ourselves without healing our relationship to the wild places that restore us.

I return again and again to nature because that is where I find joy, meaning, and a kind of healing. In these photographs, I hope to provoke questions, stir emotion, and offer a visual space where others might feel the same.

Archival Inkjet Prints