This installation was created for Portland State University’s Advanced Photography Studio course and exhibited in the group exhibition Full Disclosure at Franklin FOTO throughout June 2026.

The installation brings together self-portraiture, personal writing, music photography, and my book, Generation Behind: Cancerslug. A large central self-portrait is surrounded by masked figures, corroded objects recovered from the forest, damaged pages marked by repeated phrases, 1990s pornography, an iPod and headphones, and a self-portrait punctured by bullet holes. Together, these elements form an environment resembling a shrine, an archive, and a site under investigation.

The work examines identity as a structure produced under pressure. Masculinity, masking, criticism, repetition, and self-presentation are treated as evidence of the ways a person adapts in order to remain functional and visible. Generation Behind extends this examination into music and photography, tracing how anger, alienation, and obsessive creative practice can be converted into community, memory, and material form.

Full Disclosure presents the self as both subject and evidence. It records the effects of criticism, performance, and endurance, while examining what can be constructed from the conditions intended to diminish or destroy it.

Zechariah 11:17
"Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!"