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.