This light sensitive work combines photography with Illustration. The act of drawing begins where the photograph ends. In the ongoing series Hybrid, this work offers a transformative experience that oscillates between what is real and what is not.

Through my creative practice, I explore a sense of void within mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. How one chooses to fill these empty spaces makes us who we are as individuals. In this work I explore these empty spaces.

I begin my photographic process in a very meticulous and left-brained manner. The model’s pose, setting, lighting and exposure are thoroughly planned out in advance. After the digital capture, I create voids by digitally erasing sections of each photograph. In contrast, I fill these voids by drawing onto the photograph with a fine point pen in a very freeform and spontaneous manner.

Through this work, I offer a subjective view of the inner mind, one that plays between the duality of knowing and feeling. My photographs present a simple truth of light documentation while my drawings explore the many layers of my own psyche. Both are necessary to fill the voids we inevitably create within our lives, offering a space for healing of the body and mind. It is my hope that this work gives others, like it gave me, permission to heal.