Family Trees

I know that that my ancestors live on, both in and around me; they shaped me into existence, and their passing reshaped them back into all of existence. Sometimes I struggled to feel their presence though, despite a yearning that's increasingly pressing. I have questions that I'm just now living into, and they hold some of the answers. There is healing to do, and I'm curious if we might find ways to do it together. This country and this planet are in trouble, and I would like to be able to feel them at my back as we reckon with it all. This body of work is made where these people lived: the hills above Los Gatos, the plains of southern Minnesota, the coastal reaches of Oregon. Wherever I find trees there, the internal clamor subsides. I make photographs as a means of listening to what emerges.

This series began in 2024. It is ongoing.