Growing up in Pennsylvania and spending summers in Adirondack park in upstate New York, whitetail deer were a fixture of my childhood. Early morning spectres in the woods, background characters to suburban drives, ever-present and rarely noticed, the deer stood in for my fascination with nature as a whole. Awkward and unrefined, sleek and elegant, fragile and a little terrifying, the deer represent a whole host of contradictions in our complicated relationship with the natural world.

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Recently drawing from images shared online, I have been investigating trail camera photos as a subject matter that consolidates various trains of thought throughout my artistic career. Building on my previous work which centered on social media as a subject, these new paintings aim to pull at seemingly opposing ideas. The tension between technology and nature, our imagined place within the natural world versus reality, the tension of new media outpacing and breaking elements of human experience; all these contradictions creep into my mind as I build a new body of work here in Brooklyn.