Being Dead

Being Dead is an ongoing body of work exploring mortality through the decomposition of organic materials found along the Bloomingdale Trail. Inspired by the novel Being Dead by Jim Crace, the images draw from both scientific observation and visual reverence, examining death not as an end, but as transformation. What was once flourishing within a beloved neighborhood park is rendered in states of decay, where breakdown and renewal exist simultaneously.

Created as tintypes, the work introduces a tension between subject and medium: fixing a transient state of decay within a form designed to endure, extending the life of what is in the process of disappearing.