I grew up learning the visual language of the Southeastern woods — its light, its silences, the way a season turns before you notice it has.

During the 2020 lockdown in Chattanooga, photography became the way I learned to pay attention. What began in isolation became something else: a practice of returning to the same paths, the same questions, the same quality of light. Outward, toward a world that is fragile and worth defending. Inward, toward whatever it is that makes a person need to walk into the woods alone.

The work is still solitary. I try to arrive without assumption — to let the land say what it has to say before I reach for the camera.

These images are an invitation to that same stillness.

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Published Work

• 2026 “Mornings of Stillness: How a Local Mountain Resets My Rhythm” (Essay and Images), The Slow Photography Movement (May)

• 2025 “From Across the Ravine” (Essay and Images), On Landscape Magazine, Issue 334 (August)

• 2024 “Sacred Places” (Essay and Images), Nature Vision Magazine, Issue 6 (Fall)

• 2024 “Exploration and Remembrance in Southwestern Oklahoma” (Essay and Images), On Landscape Magazine, Issue 306 (June)

• 2023 “Limited and Infinite” (Mini-Portfolio), OnLandscape Magazine, Issue 286 (August)

Solo Exhibitions

• 2023 Solo Exhibition, Philip Grymes Outdoor Chattanooga Center, Chattanooga, TN

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025 Wellness Studios of Virginia Lee, LMT (Primary Exhibitor), Summer – Present

• 2025 Seasonal Shifts, Erlanger Baroness Hospital, Chattanooga, TN

• 2025 Flora & Fauna, CHA ART SPACE, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

• 2025 The Color Yellow (Member Thematic Show), The Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN

• 2024 Juried Member Show (“Ironworker” selected), The Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN

• 2022 Reflections and Shadows, Erlanger Health System, Chattanooga, TN

Residencies & Collections

• 2025 “Lofty” acquired for permanent display, Erlanger Dialysis at Baroness

• 2024 “Stay Awhile” & “Passengers” acquired for permanent display, Erlanger East Gastroenterology

• 2024 Co-Exhibitor with Anh Bao Tran-Le, The Woodshop Listening Room, Chattanooga, TN (April – August)

• 2022 Artist in Residence (with Virgil Fox), The Woodshop Listening Room, Chattanooga, TN (May 2022 – January 2023)