Bloom & Bare (2024-2025)
Bloom & Bare grew out of a midlife restlessness.
It asks how we grow older, who we are when we set aside the roles and identities we’ve built, and how we might feel more vividly alive.
It asks how we grow older, who we are when we set aside the roles and identities we’ve built, and how we might feel more vividly alive.
A couple of years ago I found myself turning inward instead of pushing ahead.
I began wandering into wild places with no plan—just a camera—following the old idea that retreating into nature can transform us.
I began wandering into wild places with no plan—just a camera—following the old idea that retreating into nature can transform us.
The work is a series of nude self-portraits in the wilderness, where nudity is not spectacle but a way to strip away pretense and meet the landscape as an equal.
The landscapes aren’t backdrops; they share the stage as a living counterpart, as if I were stepping into a frame that keeps expanding.
I wanted to create a space to simply look and be as a middle-aged man—present, vulnerable, and fully human.
The landscapes aren’t backdrops; they share the stage as a living counterpart, as if I were stepping into a frame that keeps expanding.
I wanted to create a space to simply look and be as a middle-aged man—present, vulnerable, and fully human.
Each photograph records an encounter between my body and the earth, solitude and presence, the self I’ve known and the self still emerging.
Order of Magnitude
In the Clearing
Dark Faced
Arms In Bloom
Limbs in Wild Light
When I Close My Eyes
Three Holes
Between Blue Eyed Grass
Thicket Offering
Let It Rest
Into the Deep
Face in Silhouette
Redwood Immersion
Lush Layers
Crushed by Green
Becoming Violet
Spring Sprouts
Threshold of Light
Sliding Yellow
Raised by the Forest
Cover of Green
Rest Against Time
In the Flow
In Nature's Keep
Weight of Reflection
Quiet Violet
Held by Dark Waters
