FINE ART WORK
UNDER THE MASC • an exploration of masculinities and identities
"Under the Masc" explores my earliest memories of masculinity. When I made these photographs, I was thinking about a childhood memory I have of walking into a friend’s garage to find his father skinning and gutting a deer he had killed. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, I came to associate men with animal death in this way, but grew to understand the necessity of the practice for the community, and to recognize what a privilege it is to never have to dirty one’s hands with the blood of one's own food.
For these photographs, I projected images of butchered cattle and mass-caught fish onto the bodies of men. These images are my memories projected onto other people, just as we all project our perceptions onto others. These images are products of the male gaze and do not constitute a defense of men.
Shot on a Maymiya RZ67, self-developed and scanned.
Models: Dominick Leskiw, Craig E., Hunter O., self.
UNTITLED CHAIR PROJECT • photo object • sculpture • metal fabrication
water photograph UV printed on heavy canvas, suspended in a handmade steel tube chair.
Sit down and imagine you’re floating.
MAGENTA WAVE SCANS • high fidelity manipulation on a flatbed scanner
zooming in encouraged.
UNDER DURESS, WITH GRAVITY • touch, intimacy, grief, desire, experience, memory.
Models: Craig E., Meg M.
OUT OF OFFICE • fine art personal project
Models: Dominick L. , Scott J., Nick H., Luke B.
42” x 60” prints on uncoated bond paper
Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
work from Lake Washington, WA
2024–2025
WET AND COLD BETWEEN THE EYES • series in the water & under the water, using waves as a dynamic variable to produce ephemeral portraits
Model: Dominick Leskiw
SURFACE TENSION • in the water, together • breathe, embrace, touch, sink, float