Art making is challenging. It calls on the inner will to be creative and to push an idea through all the stages of a project. From exhilaration to self-doubt, from formulating an idea to finding and perfecting the most appropriate technique, all must be generated from within the artist. My subject and my technique call on the past. I am interested in photographing a specific place, the Arkansas Delta Region, and the remnants of old buildings that seem to hang on a little longer in the Delta than in other places. The weather, the way the light falls, and the seasons and their effects on my subjects are so intertwined that they too become a primary concern in my photographs. My goal is to evoke thought and memory for the viewer as the images generate for me.

I choose slow photography. It is sometimes painfully tedious, but I have developed a unique technique that I feel results in a final photograph that reflects its content. The prints are a bit rough and uneven, like a memory. They are shot on film and then enlarged onto other pieces of film that are then tiled together and exposed on sheets of paper coated with cyanotype. I expose the prints in the sun and determine exposure times by eye and by instinct. I hope to reflect truth and inspire curiosity with my work.