I like to read.

Despite delusions to the contrary I am forced to admit, based on the vegetable output every year, that I am a terrible gardener.

I have twins.

I manage to find time to read even with twin kindergarteners.

I don’t find time to weed.

I do find time to make pictures.

Though I can’t claim to be wholly faithful to it, the majority of my work is done using a holga. I find that it’s lack of precision suits my interest in capturing truth on the slant, as Emily Dickinson would have said, or truth as a half remembered dream, about to melt into the air.

Childhood fascinates me, which is good since I get to watch it unfold daily around me. Children devour their world with intensity; that rock, that flower, getting into that ball game, playing with that girl – these are utterly all consuming and important. It’s a terrifying world, from an adult perspective, because without perspective everything is both fascinating and overwhelming. Most adults recognize this when they’ll say, laughing, you couldn’t pay them enough to relive middle school. My interest in the Maine coastal area springs from my own childhood, as that is where I grew up and the rocks and trees and waters there were the backdrop for my own youth.

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Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Blum Shapiro, West Hartford, CT, Spring 2011

GROUP AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS
Portraits at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, juried by Anna Walker Skillman, winter 2012
Holiday Show at the Gallery at Firehouse Square in New London, CT, winter 2011
Again: Reflections and Photography at the PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT, juried by Sylvia de Swaan, Fall 2011
Spooky Show III at the Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria OR, juried by gallery staff, Fall 2011
Toyed With at the Open Shutter Gallery, Durango CO, juried by Michelle Bates, Summer 2011.
Plastic Fantastic II at the Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria OR, juried by Susan Burnstine, Summer 2011.
4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2011.
Black and White at the Kentucky Art Speaks Gallery, Louisville, KY, Fall 2010
West Hartford Art Walk, Fall 2010.
Library Snapshot Week, at West Hartford Public Library, juried by Joseph Cadieux, March 2010.
West Hartford Art Walk, Fall 2008.

RECOGNITION
3rd Place, Plastic Fantastic II, 2011

“Girl In Tutu” is a truly iconic toy camera image that is perfect in every way. The menacing composition, the complex, troubled expression on the child’s face and the overall depth and mood is uncompromisingly flawless in a creative practice that thrives on flaws to create perfection. – Susan Burnstine