I think simplicity is found only in abstraction. Everything and everyone exists in a state of change, and evidence of this change complicates our mental picture of familiar things.

"Complications" is a series about the way things break down, fade, and age. These photographs document a practice of searching for intersecting stories traced on the surface of the world around me. The straightforward way in which I approach the subject matter of these photographs is important: I am exploring the tension created by photographs which are compositionally flat, but contextually multilayered.

Photography has become my way of holding on to things that are disappearing. Change is inevitable for all things, but photographs freeze these changes so they can be thoughtfully considered.