The Tidal Dreams series explores the concept of wilderness in the urban environment and challenges our perception of Baltimore’s urban landscape. 
 
This series was photographed at Black Marsh Natural Area on the east side of Baltimore, on property once owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company. The property was once used as a hunting preserve for the steel company’s executives. For almost a century, the Bethlehem Steel Company was one Baltimore’s biggest employers and one of the northern Chesapeake Bay’s biggest polluters; yet, they were good stewards of this particular place. When Bethlehem Steel closed, they sold the property for 5.3 million dollars to the state of Maryland. 
 
Black Marsh Natural Area is considered one of the finest examples of a tidal marsh on the upper Chesapeake Bay, despite being surrounded by an industrial, urban environment. It’s a landscape of memories, and a reminder of what the natural landscape of Baltimore was like prior to industrialization. Climate change, rising sea levels and surrounding development threaten this fragile ecosystem home to native wetland plants and rare, threatened or endangered birds.
 
The series’ richly layered landscapes blur the lines between fantasy and reality. They are printed on translucent vellum and backed with white gold or silver leaf, giving the intimate prints dimension, luminosity, and a little bit of magic.

The Tidal Dreams series was exhibited in March 2019 at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Two pieces from the Tidal Dream series are part of the permanent colleaction of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. 

The Tidal Dreams series explores the concept of wilderness in the urban environment and challenges our perception of Baltimore’s urban landscape. 
 
This series was photographed at Black Marsh Natural Area on the east side of Baltimore, on property once owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company. The property was once used as a hunting preserve for the steel company’s executives. For almost a century, the Bethlehem Steel Company was one Baltimore’s biggest employers and one of the northern Chesapeake Bay’s biggest polluters; yet, they were good stewards of this particular place. When Bethlehem Steel closed, they sold the property for 5.3 million dollars to the state of Maryland. 
 
Black Marsh Natural Area is considered one of the finest examples of a tidal marsh on the upper Chesapeake Bay, despite being surrounded by an industrial, urban environment. It’s a landscape of memories, and a reminder of what the natural landscape of Baltimore was like prior to industrialization. Climate change, rising sea levels and surrounding development threaten this fragile ecosystem home to native wetland plants and rare, threatened or endangered birds.
 
The series’ richly layered landscapes blur the lines between fantasy and reality. They are printed on translucent vellum and backed with white gold or silver leaf, giving the intimate prints dimension, luminosity, and a little bit of magic.

The Tidal Dreams series was exhibited in March 2019 at Project 1628 in Baltimore.

Blending selections from two bodies of work, the Emotional Landscape and Walking West series, East/West is a meditation on our memories of familiar and far away places.

All of us have a deep connection to certain places. In the Emotional Landscape series, I capture my deep connection to the natural landscape of the Mid-Atlantic region. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania and Maryland my entire life, so this landscape is the core of my being and forms my memories of home. 

Walking is an integral part of my creative process, and forms my point of view. All of the landscapes in the Walking West series were captured during my hiking trips in Arizona, California and Colorado. These are landscapes that feel foreign to me, yet I search for the familiar in these far away places. The far away then feels more like home.

In both bodies of work, I draw my inspiration from the 19th century landscape painting of The Hudson River School. Like the Hudson River School painters, I interpret the landscape and how it affects me emotionally and spiritually. I create richly layered landscapes that blend the real with the imagined, and the familiar with the unknown.

East/West will be exhibited at The Hoffberger Gallery at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in January-Februay 2020.

Blending selections from two bodies of work, the Emotional Landscape and Walking West series, East/West is a meditation on our memories of familiar and far away places.

All of us have a deep connection to certain places. In the Emotional Landscape series, I capture my deep connection to the natural landscape of the Mid-Atlantic region. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania and Maryland my entire life, so this landscape is the core of my being and forms my memories of home. 

Walking is an integral part of my creative process, and forms my point of view. All of the landscapes in the Walking West series were captured during my hiking trips in Arizona, California and Colorado. These are landscapes that feel foreign to me, yet I search for the familiar in these far away places. The far away then feels more like home.

In both bodies of work, I draw my inspiration from the 19th century landscape painting of The Hudson River School. Like the Hudson River School painters, I interpret the landscape and how it affects me emotionally and spiritually. I create richly layered landscapes that blend the real with the imagined, and the familiar with the unknown.

East/West will be exhibited at The Hoffberger Gallery at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in January-Februay 2020.

Blending selections from two bodies of work, the Emotional Landscape and Walking West series, East/West is a meditation on our memories of familiar and far away places.

All of us have a deep connection to certain places. In the Emotional Landscape series, I capture my deep connection to the natural landscape of the Mid-Atlantic region. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania and Maryland my entire life, so this landscape is the core of my being and forms my memories of home. 

Walking is an integral part of my creative process, and forms my point of view. All of the landscapes in the Walking West series were captured during my hiking trips in Arizona, California and Colorado. These are landscapes that feel foreign to me, yet I search for the familiar in these far away places. The far away then feels more like home.

In both bodies of work, I draw my inspiration from the 19th century landscape painting of The Hudson River School. Like the Hudson River School painters, I interpret the landscape and how it affects me emotionally and spiritually. I create richly layered landscapes that blend the real with the imagined, and the familiar with the unknown.

East/West will be exhibited at The Hoffberger Gallery at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in January-Februay 2020.

All of us have a deep connection to certain places. We see these places not as they are, but idealize them through our memories.

I draw my inspiration from 19th century landscape painting ranging from Thomas Cole, George Innes and The Hudson River School painters. Similar to these painters, I interpret the landscape and how it affects me emotionally and spiritually. My approach is not about capturing reality, but creating a neo-Romantic world reflective of my memory and imagination.

The Emotional Landscape was exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Stoneham, Massachussets from July-October 2018.