During the blisteringly hot days in the American South, I share the common respite of humid nights. A break from petty teenage fights, a polarizing political climate, oppressive monopolies, homophobia, and the church. The night brings a distinctive lull from the overwhelming conflict of the day.
These are the conditions that inform my practice. While my work has dealt with these themes within the contemporary, it wasn’t long before I found these concerns in the historical. The photographic tableaux then became a means of disruption; an interrogation of humanity’s endless propensity for violence and power. Photographs of knights at resting, hiding, and readying themselves make up my newest body of work Thy Life be a Summer Day. A body that hopes to answer what it means to be really invunerable.
