Artist's Statement

I have always been drawn to abandoned places and wild, reclusive Nature. Spirits left behind from the human and the natural world, all are recurring themes in my photographs. As a girl, I spent days wandering through forgotten buildings and exploring the primeval forest in northern New York. There, unknowingly, I found the poetry of place and time.

In 2002, many years and projects later, I began working in Skopelos, Greece. Walking every path, I was seduced by the play of light that transformed landscapes into dreamscapes of myth and possibility. I discovered deserted farm buildings (kalivia) and captured these humble structures and their graceful return back to nature. “Modern Archaeology” was born.

From farm buildings—spirits left behind—I began to look more closely at spirits of the present in rural Greece. I traveled to the western mountain municipalities, Epiros and Zagoria, where I photographed grazing animals, ancient buildings and rushing rivers. I found "Landing", a new body of work.

In “Working Hands”, which I began in 2007, I am recording the dignity and rigor of people doing manual labor into the 21st century. I continue to explore with my camera everyday rural life where authenticity prevails in the landscape, in the people, in a world that is fast changing.

I keep moving—driving far, always hiking off the well-trod paths, camping out to catch the daybreak and the dusk.

Henri Cartier-Bresson said, “ …There are some places where the pulse beats more…” For me, for now, that place is rural Greece.