Natural Histories

This body of work brings together photographs drawn from science museums, natural history, landscapes, and personal encounters, merging them with images from other contexts—scientific, historical, and intimate. Through these juxtapositions, the photographs function less as documents and more as poetic metaphors, creating spaces where meaning emerges through relationship rather than explanation.

The work is rooted in a fascination with the visual language of science: its displays, diagrams, specimens, and promises of clarity. These images are paired with moments from lived experience—portraits, fragments of nature, traces of memory—introducing vulnerability, affection, and uncertainty. Together, they explore a tension between the precision of the scientific method and the messier truths of human life, where understanding is shaped by chance, intuition, and emotional connection.

Fragility runs throughout the work: in the preservation of specimens, in the impermanence of natural forms, and in the tenderness of human relationships. At the same time, the images allow space for wonder and magic—the quiet beauty that arises when disparate elements unexpectedly align. By collapsing distinctions between observation and feeling, objectivity and love, the photographs suggest that meaning is not fixed or singular, but relational—formed in moments of curiosity, care, and attentive looking.