In January 2024, I began sifting through photos that my family had asked me to digitize. At the same time, I started teaching an upper-level portraiture class that offered students both analog and digital inroads to image-making.     I have always b
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
 These photos, taken in 2019, are of my friends and community members in La Plant, on the Cheyenne River Reservation. These relationships began in 2015, during the Lakota Youth Speak project; I did not, however, take any photographs until 2019.     D
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
 Created through a run-in between some self portraits and a spray foam can in a cramped studio space, this series “____ ME” was born. An exploration of surfaces, performance, and looking back at the looker. Shown at  Fresh as Fruit Gallery in Deland,