My artwork offers the magic and mystery that we long to find in nature. I combine emotive landscape photography with fanciful narratives, encouraging viewers to consider layers of meaning by stimulating our most powerful sense—the imagination. This synergy of image and word prompts the viewer to contemplate our relationship with the land in a more creative light: a tree becomes a wooden monster that stalks a lake, a rock is the broken heart of a mountain, a doorway in some ruins forms a threshold that transports you to the time of the ancients, and more.

My process begins with the photograph, looking for an unexpected compositional element that transforms the ordinary into something remarkable. I then take inspiration from the tone of the scene to compose a narrative that elicits an emotional response from the viewer, reigniting the sense of wonder and possibility that nature can offer. Ultimately, my work is designed to blur the boundaries between what is human and what is wild. We are no longer modern-day spectators examining the landscape from afar; our ancient bond with nature that has long lain dormant inside us is re-kindled. Now we are in nature, and nature is in us.