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The Gunflint Trail
A weekend in a yurt on the Gunflint trail in Northern Minnesota with my husband and our Norwegian Elkhound. Nothing but the sounds of nature, sharing trails with moose and living simply… if only for a moment.
Emotional Landscapes
A landscape without emotion is just another landscape. Depicting a feeling, the wonder and awe, the sense of being present. I seek making imagery of landscapes to feel like memory… An image created by retelling your experience. Sometimes raw, dull, moody, mysterious, fantasy or simply familiar.
“Ice Castle” 2013. @ Mall of America (scanned Medium Format film)
December 23rd 2012, I took a walk in the woods with my father behind his home. The snow was deep and hard to travel but the purpose was greater. This very day his brother, my uncle, started a new journey one year prior. During our walk we talked about the good memories with his brother as well as the memories I had as a little girl walking through these very woods. A moment I will always cherish. (scanned Medium Format film)
“Lone Oak” 2012. What does this lone oak tree tell you? I find that everyone has a different story. (scanned Medium Format film)
Mississippi Bluffs, 2012. (scanned Medium Format film)
“Through the Rabbit Hole.” 2012 Lake Elmo (scanned Medium Format film)
“Ice Water Fall” 2013. Lilydale (scanned Medium Format film)
“Hazy Winter Sun” 2013 (scanned Medium Format film)
“River” 2013 (scanned Medium Format film)
“Fox Tail” 2005. Greater Minnesota. (scanned Medium Format film)
A cemetery in Hilo, Hawaii 2003. (scanned Medium Format film)
Hawaii, 2003 (scanned Medium Format film)
Hawaii, 2003 (scanned Medium Format film)
“Mushrooms” 2001 (scanned infared film)
Psychological Spaces
Humans impact their environment in many ways. We build great cities, humble homes and when we leave, we leave it all behind. What remains in these environments are the memories of the events that evolved there. A sort of psychological anthropological evidence of whom once lived there.
2005 (scanned medium format film)
“Habitat for Humanity on the Reservation” 2005. Eagle Butte, South Dakota. (scanned medium format film)
“Cemetery Boy Scouts Project” 2013 Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. (scanned medium format film)
“Tunnel” 2012. Lake Elmo (scanned medium format film)
“Ski Building” 2012. Lake Elmo (scanned medium format film)
“Hells Out Casts” 2012. Mississippi Bluffs. (scanned medium format film)
“Old Hunting Cabin” 2012. Mississippi Bluffs. (scanned medium format film)
“Old Lower Town Depot” 2013. Saint Paul, Minnesota. (scanned medium format film)
“Church Piano” 2005. Ortonville, Minnesota. (scanned medium format film)
“Bank Statements” 2005. Ortonville, Minnesota. (scanned medium format film)
“Abandoned Church Room” 2005. Ortonville, Minnesota.
“Abandon Church Window” 2005. Ortonville, Minnesota. (scanned medium format film)
“Church Crosses” 2005. (scanned medium format film)
“King Solomon” 2005. (scanned medium format film)
“Chair” 2005 (scanned medium format film)
“Church Piano” 2005 (scanned medium format film)
“The Old Church” 2005. Ortonville, MN. (scanned medium format film)
“Silo Bolt” 2012. (scanned medium format film)
“Silo Doors” 2012. (scanned medium format film)
“Ice Castle 2” 2013 @ Mall of America. (scanned medium format film)
Paintings
When I feel the use for color I find that I enjoy it mostly in painting. Painting was my choice of expression in my youth and I find it still very enjoyable, even if photography is my life love. I choose to paint dreams, intense emotions and my internal state of mind. For me painting becomes a process that I most enjoy when I want to slow things down a little. This process is preferred if I need to download thoughts about myself or the intense work I do with others as an arts-based psychotherapist.
“Dream of the Red Wolves” 2011
“A Murder of Crows” 2010
“Portrait of a Budding Art Therapist.” 2009
“Dragonfly” 2012
“Crossing Over” 2010
Project Home
For many years I turned the camera on my family. From the time my son and daughter were babies to present. This focus has been in light of many life transitions for us all, from loss to life stages. I continue to tell our story…
Sensuous Beings
Quintessence Self
I have began a journey in which I have chosen to reflect about the meaning of life, and the essence of the soul during a time a great life transition.
The definition of Quintessence is; the pure, highly concentrated essence of a something; the purest or most typical instance: the quintessence of evil; and finally, in ancient and medieval philosophy, the fifth and highest essence after the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, thought to be the substance of the heavenly bodies and latent in all things.
“Cold”
“Thresh Hold”
“Hands and Feet”
“Black Bird”
“Memories of Childhood Self”
“Just Playing Zombie”
Spirit of the Lakota
All Images are from my time spent in South Dakota (Eagle Butte, Badlands, Black Hills) from 2002-2005. During that time I visited with many individuals on the Cheyenne River reservation and learned about their community and culture, through storytelling, art and ceremony. The most compelling part was learning the resilience of the people and how their native traditions are practiced with pride in the shadow of historical trauma.
