My photographs and videos portray the parallels and dualities of my self, the introvert and the extrovert. In my private life I bask in solitude, preferring to stay out of sight, but in my life as an actor I become more animated and extroverted; as a gamer I exist on a continuum from one extreme to another. My photos capture moments and memories from my everyday life, while my videos function as documents of my performances as an actor in self-tapes or as a gamer on Twitch.  

Experimenting with several cameras, I use a DSLR for street photography, a webcam for my streaming/gaming, and a smartphone for atmosphere and detail photographs wherever I may find myself. The back lenses of my smartphone capture my surroundings and the front lenses film my self-tapes. Each approach offers different perspectives and calls attention to visual elements and relationships that are often overlooked. Through abstraction, distortion, and various proximities, my images express comfort and solitude within my own established boundaries while sometimes breaching them. My videos push those boundaries by bearing witness to my life outside of art. Smartphone technology “fixes” images by smoothing the noise yet distorting compositions; similarly, any camera movement and optical blurring confuses the digital capture. These results transform ordinary scenes, whether artificially or naturally lit, into subjectively altered observations.