Artist Statement
The premise of my current body of work is to seek out the beauty in death. I attempt to photograph these animals in way that humanizes them and portrays them as beautiful rather than grotesque as we normally view road kill. In addition to creating an image that alters our perception on beauty, these road kill images are an attempt to make us focus on something that is often overlooked. These images forces us to look closely at the animals we kill. I hope that when people see these images that they not only see the beauty but also the brutality within that beauty.
The inspiration for my work came from seeing the body farm images in Sally Mann’s book What Remains. I was fascinated with how she was able to capture something that was so gruesome and depict it in such an elegant way. Her work was bewitching and as much as I wanted to look away I was so enticed that I couldn’t stop looking at them. Her work evoked a lot of thought and emotion and I wanted to capture those similar feelings in my own work.
Death is a universal topic that has forever fascinated and enticed humans. Our culture today often suppresses discussion and images of death. My images were created with the intent of evoking emotion and thought in regards to death and its beauty.
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