Artist Statement

The new constantly meets the old, and time folds in on itself like a dream in my photographs, blending past and present. The girls I capture, posed in vintage silks, 70’s polyester, prairie printed cottons, and structured wool, exist somewhere between memory and fantasy. An ideal that once was, full of whimsical hope. The girls are both characters and archetypes, almost like paper dolls carefully placed in scenes from another era.

They are muses, protagonists of untold stories. Diners, Catskills motels, small, abandoned restaurant lounges, and places that were once frequented daily - neon signs, next to old props, and roadside attractions from bygone days - these spaces each whisper their own stories. They hold the residue of dreams and lives lived before, now temporarily inhabited by girls suspended in time, their expressions both knowing and elusive. Each frame is a vignette, a moment of quiet theater where nostalgia meets an eerie stillness. There is such a beautiful tension when the young meet the old. Drawing from the world of cinema, dreamlike femininity, and quiet surrealism, my work is as much about the environment as it is about the subjects.