A chalk pastel drawing of a young woman (Jennifer) sitting on a broken swing in tall grass at dusk, rendered on black paper so that shadow precedes light. The figure turns slightly away from the viewer, her face framed by the last light of the day.

An oil painting of two figures seated at the edge of a vast body of water, facing a distant horizon where a city glows beneath an unsettled sky. The space between foreground and horizon is heavy with depth, the sky may be clearing or thickening. The image resists resolution.

A photograph taken during an early October snowfall on Bolivar Heights. This image became a foundational moment in the Souvenir project, connecting dream, place, and the practice of witnessing meaning over time.

Photographed in 2011 inside the Millville schoolhouse, this Souvenir image captures a bowed form held between light and shadow in an an old schoolhouse classroom.

A watercolor study of a narrow street in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Painted from a personal photograph, the piece explores the texture of stone walls, wooden steps, and wet pavement beneath a gray sky, capturing the quiet atmosphere of a familiar place layered with memory.

A watercolor study of a heron along the Shenandoah River, drawn from a photograph and grounded in a landscape shaped by repeated memory and routine.

A marker illustration of a crowded passage shaped by light and shadow, where streets and walls feel as conscious and recognizable as the individual within them.

An early painting based on a 2006 photograph taken on Bolivar Heights. Part of an ongoing visual thread exploring figure, place, and the emergence of forms that would take on greater meaning over time.

A photograph from Christmas Day 2012, taken just after my uncle’s funeral, when everything appeared unchanged and yet was no longer the same. Part of an ongoing documentation of family, place, and the slow shift of structures once assumed to endure.

A winter photograph taken at the Ocean City inlet, where sand, fencing, and horizon lines begin to register as something other than landscape. Within Souvenir, the image marks a moment where external place and internal terrain briefly align.

A photograph of a found feather, made on April 7, 2012, as part of the Souvenir Project. The image documents the moment a sustained creative block broke, not through effort, but through surrender. One of the more consequential photographs in the archive.

A printed and foiled oracle card from the Mayura Oracle Deck, addressing the theme of home through a layered symbolic composition of roots, tree rings, deer, and feathers. Part of an early vision card series developed through a twelve-week class, and the first card in the series to receive a printed back.