Growing up in a very rural area, my childhood was filled with woods, farm fields and dirt roads. Replacing that with a forest of buildings, traffic lights and crowds of people I aim to capture that which is unfamiliar to me while still showing faint roots of where I was raised. My collection does not only include a combination of urban and rural, but simply opposites in the frame. The opposites that I have captured are not cut and dry, I prefer my photographs to have a depth that requires thought in interpreting how the subject possesses opposing features.
Some of my inspiration comes from Abelardo Morell. Considered a conceptual photographer, Morell has spent some time working in the field of Camera Obscura. Although this field is different from the style of photography that I have worked in, the subject of his photography is what inspires me. He is able to manipulate his work to show two different settings in one picture. This individual picture of Morell's that I chose to showcase captures that which I wish to capture. The two settings are inside of a bedroom, but also a beautiful terrain. It makes you feel you are in both places as once.