MID began when I moved to Missouri

This series is my first real encounter with the Midwest. I hadn’t grown up here, and I never expected to call it home. The photographs in this series became a way of introducing myself to a region I didn’t yet understand. They aren’t about nostalgia or spectacle. They’re about what’s already there: the light in ordinary spaces, the distances that shape the land, and the quiet endurance of daily life. Through this work, I began to see the Midwest not as a backdrop but as a subject in its own right—full of character, resilience, and unexpected beauty. Now based in Nebraska, I can look back on MID as the proving ground for everything that has followed. It was where I learned how to see this region with patience, where I first recognized the power of the ordinary, and where I began shaping the voice that has carried into my ongoing work,

The Ineffable Present.