Artist Statement

As I continue to grow and learn, about myself and the world around me, I find my work falling into a main theme. It is a theme of identity. As a society, and naturally as human beings we wear many masks and have many sides to our personalities. The mystery of a masquerade has always been popular as well as enticing. You can be amongst friends and hide as strangers, yet your personality comes out in your mask of choice, how you have decorated it and your behavior while hidden. Though I did not get to see Venice, where the tradition of Carnivale and these Masquerade masks has really sprung from, I embraced those in my surroundings here in Rome. Even the personality of the creator stays within the mask and when someone goes to buy them they reach for the one that calls out. It all comes back to who we are, who we believe ourselves to be, even when consciously we are still unsure. 

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde

Roma Amor!

I don't really know what I want to say. I just had the urge to blog. So here it goes....

It's day 14 in Rome. I love it here, but I of course miss home. What can I say I love my city! Though being here does feel right ^_^ It's only natural. Visiting Roman ruins such as the Forum, Pompeii, The Christain Catacombs have all been an amazing walk through history. The beauty of this city is not aesthetic, it is in the rich legend, history and myth of Rome, and of Italy.

The Colosseum

The Roman Forum

Mold of the fossil of a victim of the eruption of Vesuvius in Pompeii

These are just three images of oh so many!

Let's be ourselves and get into character

She iZ.

Self portraits...Photography for me is an exploration, a journey, an adventure. Every now and then we have to venture into the depths of the "self" (id, ego, super ego). I do documentary and street work so there is always someone else in front of my camera, and that's the way I like it. But since my life is a journey and learning experience, self portraits are the same for self discovery. We all wear masks. We all think that people try to be something they're not or just plainly "try". In my opinion no matter who you're trying to be, that's just you being yourself. So I intend to explore my character. The dynamics, the theatrics, the personalities. 

1 and 1 and 1 is 3

Kill Me Kate

Oh passions, we all have one or many, even if you don't know it yet. I have a passion for photography, KMK has a passion for music...and then some! Even those of you who feel like what you're doing right now isn't what you want to be doing, or its not making you happy, or what ever feelings you have! Keep trying new things, make time in your day, in you busy lives that always seem to be running out of "time." This thing time, it can just be a state of mind, a boundary bringing limitation to a limitless life! 

"Even death won't stop me, I'll stand my ground. I'll claw through dirt and mud"

-Evil Deaded

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At the end of the Road

Well I'll tell you when I get there. And when I do I hope to say that the journey meant all the world to me and the destination is but a rest stop.