The S IS FOR SOMEWHERE series was made in 2025 as a minor love letter to my hometown on the river—it’s chipper, it’s silly, and it was made to celebrate the happy side of how it feels to be intimately aware of a place. And there’s an alphabet’s worth of them.

It’s also a celebration of color and texture. They’re constructed of a bright array of chunky sulphite papers without reliance on adhesive. Each is a collection of layered 8”x8” sheets, with the negative cut from one page to reveal the color of the sheet below. It makes each one a small puzzle, and the picture doesn’t really come together until the “background” color is placed on top (which is a really fun way to finish a piece).

The ALLOWANCE series is part of my ongoing love affair with the power of invitation, with finding out what happens when you ask people to unleash themselves. When you commit in advance to caring a whole bunch about what someone makes.

I worked with six designers in Knoxville over the course of 2022 for this series of self-portraits. I gave each designer creative freedom to make a garment specifically for me to wear. Once I had their pieces, I designed and painted eight-foot-square paper backdrops in response to their work and posed for the portrait. I organized and installed a showing at The Boocherie for the month of October, 2022.