Artist statement

These photographs explore themes of reality and fiction utilizing the mechanism of the diorama, creating hand-built miniatures of the landscape and catastrophic events of nature. The photographs begin with a 4 x 5" traditional view camera, creating transparencies that are then digitally scanned and manipulated. Through this process I am interested in investigating the human desire to control and predict nature. As the images romanticize nature as untouched and uncontrollable, the irony is that what you see is entirely synthetic and created by human hands.