Artist’s Statement

Recently I was asked what my top 3 attributes I was looking for in a romantic partner. One of the first things that popped out of my mouth was, “She must dance.” My photography is often made in musical settings. I love catching people in performance mode. Sometimes this is a musician sharing their art. However, my favorite is to capture the audience responding to the music surrounding them.

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The Art of Dance series was born from observing people letting their bodies move to the beat. The images caught digitally through my lens were edited in Adobe Lightroom. I then brought them into Adobe Photoshop to craft them into a painterly style. I remove the background and let the figures pop against an imagined canvas. As someone who has zero skill with a brush it’s a fantastic joy for me to digitally manipulate my photographs to look like paintings.

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These artist renderings were originally captured in my travels to Okinawa, Japan and Havana, Cuba as well as in my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.