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.
Dark Faced
Weight of Reflection
Face in Silhouette
In the Clearing
In the Flow
Arms In Bloom
Rest Against Time
Between Blue Eyed Grass
Into the Deep
Cover of Green
Thicket Offering
Becoming Violet
Let It Rest
Spring Sprouts
Limbs in Wild Light
Pebble Walk
Lush Layers
Threshold of Light
Order of Magnitude
Sand Watch
Redwood Immersion
Quiet Violet
In Nature's Keep
