Work > Great Lakes

During the summer of 2022, I worked for two months as a deckhand on M/V Paul R. Tregurtha, a bulk cargo vessel trafficking coal. During my time, I took copious notes on every facet of the ship, collected hundreds of images, and smuggled home coal samples and other bits and pieces from the boat. I developed paints based on crushed coal and rust fragments collected from the ship for use in my work. These photographs are the basis for some of my image transfer-based paintings.