I find joy in whimsy, the funny side of violence, and routine situations that have simply gone wrong. My photographs are complete when they register cerebrally as that succinct mixture of the bizarre and the comfortably arcane. The photographs I create reflect on enduring patterns of behavior and feelings that pervade all aspects of my life, and taken together, define me. In these images, I am implicitly developing a shadow or whisper of a punch line that never fully reaches fruition. I laugh at Zeus, the pug that seems to be winking at me but actually had her eye ripped out by a coyote. My work solidifies a tangible presence through more classical systems of gesture and color palette, allowing my tongue-in-cheek observations to subtly collide. An example of this is seen in Rodger, a portrait of an old boyfriend, recreated in pasta form, as if I had blown his head open with a shotgun. I draw a particular satisfaction from this sort of humor, making the audience second-guess laughter and engage in an openness regarding the experience. In the end, my challenge lies in creating a persuadable normalcy in situations that are just not normal.