Birds

February of 2019 was the first time I brought home a dead bird and kept it in my freezer; I have been collecting and freezing them ever since. Beginning in 2021, I work with the birds weekly, finding new discoveries and understandings through the use of photography, video, and works on paper.

Using various interventions such as temperature, wind, and water, I create art inspired by my imagined perspectives of the birds. Through art making, I aim to discover and understand connections between the experiences of the birds and myself. It is through this path that I reach towards my ultimate goal to understand the ways we, as organisms and matter, are interconnected within the universe.

Bird Portraits

These photographs are made using the 1842 non silver photographic technique, cyanotype. Through this process, I expose coated paper under a light in the studio, develop it underwater in my bathtub, and finally soak them in coffee.