PATTERNS AND TONES

Flora as Fashion: Stacy Ellen Rich Throughout 2016 and 2017, I crafted 16 images in a series that I called " Home as Hat ". These images where inspired by an image I shot while I was photographing Kim Shattuck from The Muffs for my " Day in the Life of a Rock 'n' Roller " series.  As we walking around her neighborhood, I had her stand in front of a lovely gabled home. I quickly saw through my lens the shape of a hat emerging from the pointed roof behind her and I excitedly snapped the shutter to capture her in front of it. It became clear in that instant that there was a new body of work waiting to be created. I've just started to embark on a new angle to this series inspired by the wildly talented Costume designer Stacy Ellen Rich. The photograph above was taken with the intention of adding it to my Hat series but I quickly realized that the vegetation around her could be repurposed into a colorful skirt and adjusted my perspective to concentra...

"Kim Shattuck" from  Home as Hat FASHION VS. STYLE  “Fashion fades, style is eternal.” -  Yves Saint Laurent While working on this series of portraits I started to discover the distinction between fashion and style. The individuals I have been photographing are all very fashionable but each actually had something a bit more that was adding to the image. I realized it was their personal style that was coming through, the strength of their character which made the image more compelling. The decorative "hats" that I have been stitching into these portraits now have become a symbolic gesture to fashion, a connection between the exterior world we create, wear and live in, while the individual in each photograph has taken on a more spiritual transcendence of the fashion world in the projection of their individual style. It is the intersection between fashion and style that I find very interesting. Combining person...