Urban Traces: A Study of Decay and Uncovering

As a lifelong creative who channeled my focus on interior design as a career, I found myself compelled to capture with my iphone camera what my eye is drawn to on any regular day out in the world.

Encouraged by the positive and consistent response to the images I shared on social media, my interest and commitment to consistency increased. The results are bodies of work, the first to be exhibited formally is now showing at Counter Culture Cafe in Santa Fe.

This will be a limited time show, and the first of more to come!

Artist's Statement:

Urban Traces: A Study of Decay and Uncovering

This work explores the poetics of surface, memory, and time through the overlooked textures of the built and natural environment. Each image isolates fragments of urban and rural structures, drawing attention to the quiet narratives written into concrete, plaster, wood, and steel. Rust stains, peeling paint, and scattered detritus become markers of entropy, but also of resilience.

Each photograph resists the clean slate, insisting instead on the presence of history. Together, they form a visual essay on impermanence, asking us to look closer at the ordinary walls and edges that quietly hold our passage through time.

A strong industrial aesthetic present in my images, such as rusty metal objects and stark architectural lines, derive from a fascination with form and composition, as well as the raw and functional qualities of industrial structures. All no doubt founded in the landscape of my childhood in the oil patches and agrarian environs of

Southern New Mexico and West Texas.

My intent is not to romanticize ruin, but to reveal the living quality of materials and the silent dialogues they carry. The aspect of observation of seemingly unremarkable moments in time: process, discard, choices both implied and unimplied underpin of a great deal of my images and the subjects that draw my eye.