Whenever I write about my artwork, I struggle to discover some theme or idea that encompasses everything that I have done. Since I created all of these images, it is logical that they should all look the same, but the final appearance of my images is very different based on subject matter. For the past few years, I have photographed two main subjects, My Home and Silver Sands State Park. I have been working on both of these projects simultaneously, and they are both still in progress.

I started photographing My Home first. It began with still lives in the kitchen, which grew into some interiors and then exteriors in the yard. These are not public spaces, but specifically the personal spaces in which I exist. When taking images of My Home, I tend to focus on the beauty I find in the idiosyncratic elements of my daily life, such as the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink or the vines overgrowing the fence in the backyard.

I started photographing Silver Sands State Park a couple years later. It began as an exercise that I enjoyed and has expanded into a large body of work. People find the images I take at Silver Sands to be more aesthetically pleasing. I find that the subject of my images tend to be similar to those from my backyard, such as grasses and fences. As someone once pointed out to me, the difference between My Home images and those from Silver Sands may be due to the fact that I experience the two places differently. Silver Sands is a public space whereas My Home is a private space.

Overall, this difference between the way I experience My Home and Silver Sands tends to be the reason for my inability to discover a theme that encompasses all of my work. At this point, I am satisfied with the idea that I experience these two places differently, and therefore the images I create are just as different.