The acknowledgement of the death of someone close to you is quite a troublesome one. It makes you realize that you are intrinsically tied in every way to the people you love so dearly. This also means that your grief must be carried with you in every notion of life, even in your work. Collective Anomalies is just that, the grief of loving someone, losing them, and carrying their memory with you in every stride of life. But with that, you must learn to deconstruct and reconstruct your understanding of the world around you- and without your beloved. This work is about that grief and the way in which it widdles its way into every fiber of your being.  

       Following patterns and symbols within the forest I began to see my own perceptions of death and grief within the forest. I noticed the way in which nature honors the dead, through new growth, deconstruction and then reconstruction. While going on long walks through the forest I started to collect what I like to call “anomalies,” dead trees with only the broken stump remaining- and no trunk or branches to be connected. I took these anomalies through a laborious process of photographing, printing selected parts, then cyanotype printing on top, then van dyke brown printing on top of that.  I was deconstructing the moment as much as I was reconstructing it. These collective anomalies made my grief more bearable. In the end I made a mural print with every single negative from the van dyke brown and cyanotype prints, layering each moment one more time. Like a tree of life, everything you see within nature is interconnected.