I began taking photographs when I was eight years old, captivated by how a camera could preserve fleeting moments. I explored both portraiture and landscape photography, drawn to minute details – a mound of snow on a BBQ grill, bird prints in the mud. 

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Twenty years ago, I discovered encaustic painting, attracted to its playful, forgiving nature, and its depth, texture, and openness to experimentation, allowing the medium to become my creative partner.

 

Today, my work merges photography and encaustic painting, capturing both stillness and transformation, memory and change. Encaustic paint (made up of damar resin, beeswax, and pure pigment) uses heat, inviting both precision and unpredictability. My process allows for movement, reminding me to release control and embrace surprise. I photograph the work as it is changing, in real time, capturing a moment, and then the work is gone, only existing as a photographic image.

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Combining these two mediums allows me to capture not just moments, but movement and change—to explore what is fleeting and what endures.