As the Northern California rainy winter started to settle in, SLATE Art (my day job) dispatched to sun drenched Miami.

Early on in my new motherhood, it became clear that the Rolleiflex was not a feasible camera for use while front baby-carrying.

Our beautiful daughter, Cecilia Mae, has arrived. Early and with drama.

But she is healthy, and we are over-the-moon happy.

Pictured here with her maternal grandmother, Mormor, with the trusty ole Rolleiflex.

My mother (and often muse) and I have each visited Montreal in the company of others, but never together. So, we made plans to leave our opposite coasts and reunited in this Canadian metropolis, humming with French and teeming with beauty.

With the Rollioflex in hand, we struck out this spring on a camping excursion to Picacho State Recreation Area on the Colorado River. Photographs taken with Kodak TMax 400 B&W film.

The Women’s March is a national movement to unify and empower everyone who stands for human rights, civil liberties, and social justice for all. We stand together in solidarity for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families — recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.

Shortly after the new year began, we went back in time with a visit to the Isabella Steward Gardener Museum.

Over the last few months, I have been turning back to film…

My studio practice has been so consumed with archaic photography printing processes, that it only seems fitting to now turn my sights back on the medium of film for image capture. With this turn, I have once again begun taking out my inherited Canon SLR, the camera that I first learned on in art school. The SLR was housing a half shot roll of four-year forgotten film, and so I took it to Stanford’s cactus garden to become re-acquainted. The space has the feeling of existing outside of time, so it seemed like an appropriate locale for such an activity. The results were rather satisfyingly strange.

We’re opening our studio door for East Bay Open Studios 2016: Saturday 6.4 + Sunday 6.5! Read more…

Strong sunlight suitable for printing my cyanotype, gum dichromate, and Van Dyke prints has become a rarity over these winter months. So, I have been plotting out new projects while I await the sunshine’s return.

For the past year+, I have had my head down working on my third alternative photography project. Following the Hemland and Robinwood series, I decided to tackle my Mama series through the fresh lens of archaic printing.