In 2023, I became interested in self-reflection as a pictorial idea and in what I might do photographically in the historic downtown area of Laramie, WY, a subject I have quietly observed for more than 30 years.
My approach to image-making is an accumulation of methods I have adopted over time—composing in-camera at the time of exposure, processing my digital captures in Photoshop to transform color images to black-and-white, and making tonal adjustments to make prints that speak to my emotional and physical response to place.
Reflections has become an exploration of time, place, and identity through Laramie’s history, vernacular architecture, western iconography, and mythology, and my presence in a place I have lived longer than anywhere else. The images are visually complex, with interior and exterior perspectives captured simultaneously, offering new relationships between time and place, and finding new meaning in my presence in the continuum.
