Music began for me practically at birth. I composed my first lyrical song at eighteen months, learned piano by ear at age three, and discovered I had perfect pitch at age seven. By age ten, I began formal training as a musician that would lead to pursuing music at the collegiate level eight years later. After attaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance and Horn, the art of photography called to me to express my love of music visually to emulate musical masterpieces. I was taught to ‘see’ music, rather than just hear it. Through Sir Isaac Newton’s Sound-Color Theory, I was taught to associate sound with color, and truly believe that every color has its own tonal identity. When I hear music, I see colors, and when I look at a painting, I hear an array of pitches that create a visual harmony.

The integration of music and photography in combination is what I strive for to create a hybrid of my artistic mind, the penultimate guise of which being drama. Dramatic lighting, complex costuming, and strong senses of emotion are all integral parts of my visual aura, all due to influences of my study and performance of opera, mime, and dance. Aurally, I draw both from my knowledge of the history of Medieval music and also from my love of the repetitive motives in Minimalism, specifically the pieces by composer, Philip Glass. Repetition is haunting to me both as a listener and as a viewer, which is why motion is a recurring theme. My photography blurs the edges of my former life and whether or not it really is “former” or merely bridged to this new medium of art I find myself working in. Am I a musician or a photographer? Maybe, just maybe…I’m both.