Tracing My Lineage to The Serpent, 2017
Tracing My Lineage to The Serpent, 2017

God, witches, devils, mythical creatures, speaking in tongues, snake and fire handling, and raising the dead all exist in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky.  For this body of work, I am appropriating family photographs, as well as vernacular images, to tell supernatural stories about my family history and the region that I come from. My work weaves together a personal narrative with the folkloric history of that area. Photoshop and the unpredictability of smart phone applications are used in a similar way to how a folktale unfolds. Each app is manipulating the story as a person might exaggerate a tale when they pass it along. By assembling family photographs and appropriating historical images, I am constructing stories with contemporary tools for manipulation and passing
 them along as visual folklore. 

Sherman Lawson's Resurrection Miracle, 2016
Sherman Lawson's Resurrection Miracle, 2016
And These Signs Shall Follow To George Went Hensley, 2016
And These Signs Shall Follow To George Went Hensley, 2016
Fable of Devil John Wright, 2017
Fable of Devil John Wright, 2017
The Precautionary Tale Of The Goatman, 2016
The Precautionary Tale Of The Goatman, 2016
Canary In A Coalmine, 2017
Canary In A Coalmine, 2017
A Memory Of Living In The Holiness Church With An Anointment, Fire, And My Father, 2017
A Memory Of Living In The Holiness Church With An Anointment, Fire, And My Father, 2017
 Witchcraft: Allegations And Misfortune, 2017
Witchcraft: Allegations And Misfortune, 2017
Paul's Folktale, 2017
Paul's Folktale, 2017
A Moth In A Mine, 2016
A Moth In A Mine, 2016
Great Uncle Ham's Final Baptism by the Frogs, 2017
Great Uncle Ham's Final Baptism by the Frogs, 2017
The Death Of Linda, 2016
The Death Of Linda, 2016
 Uninhabited Dissenter, 2016
Uninhabited Dissenter, 2016
Concerning The Farmer’s Hymn, 2016
Concerning The Farmer’s Hymn, 2016
The Devil's Spy, 2017
The Devil's Spy, 2017
After The Family Farm, 2016
After The Family Farm, 2016
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Familiar Elegy on Wallin's Creek, 2016
Familiar Elegy on Wallin's Creek, 2016
Tracing My Lineage to The Serpent, 2017
Sherman Lawson's Resurrection Miracle, 2016
And These Signs Shall Follow To George Went Hensley, 2016
Fable of Devil John Wright, 2017
The Precautionary Tale Of The Goatman, 2016
Canary In A Coalmine, 2017
A Memory Of Living In The Holiness Church With An Anointment, Fire, And My Father, 2017
 Witchcraft: Allegations And Misfortune, 2017
Paul's Folktale, 2017
A Moth In A Mine, 2016
Great Uncle Ham's Final Baptism by the Frogs, 2017
The Death Of Linda, 2016
 Uninhabited Dissenter, 2016
Concerning The Farmer’s Hymn, 2016
The Devil's Spy, 2017
After The Family Farm, 2016
Granny.jpg
Familiar Elegy on Wallin's Creek, 2016
Tracing My Lineage to The Serpent, 2017

God, witches, devils, mythical creatures, speaking in tongues, snake and fire handling, and raising the dead all exist in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky.  For this body of work, I am appropriating family photographs, as well as vernacular images, to tell supernatural stories about my family history and the region that I come from. My work weaves together a personal narrative with the folkloric history of that area. Photoshop and the unpredictability of smart phone applications are used in a similar way to how a folktale unfolds. Each app is manipulating the story as a person might exaggerate a tale when they pass it along. By assembling family photographs and appropriating historical images, I am constructing stories with contemporary tools for manipulation and passing
 them along as visual folklore. 

Sherman Lawson's Resurrection Miracle, 2016
And These Signs Shall Follow To George Went Hensley, 2016
Fable of Devil John Wright, 2017
The Precautionary Tale Of The Goatman, 2016
Canary In A Coalmine, 2017
A Memory Of Living In The Holiness Church With An Anointment, Fire, And My Father, 2017
Witchcraft: Allegations And Misfortune, 2017
Paul's Folktale, 2017
A Moth In A Mine, 2016
Great Uncle Ham's Final Baptism by the Frogs, 2017
The Death Of Linda, 2016
Uninhabited Dissenter, 2016
Concerning The Farmer’s Hymn, 2016
The Devil's Spy, 2017
After The Family Farm, 2016
Familiar Elegy on Wallin's Creek, 2016
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