SOMETHING GOOD

Something Good began as a simple interlude—a necessary breath during the festival off-season, where I could escape into the guilty pleasure of strictly aesthetic landscape. As I worked, I began to think more deeply on what these landscapes mean for me. There’s a dissonance in my mind that I can’t get over, where I feel like an outsider in the locations I came from while the trees and hills and ledges there still feel more like mine than any other place. I've photographed multiple areas of Ohio, including the Appalachian areas I grew up in, the ones I live in now, and any others I felt aesthetically drawn to. The final mix of images are not to be labelled individually and speak to the beauty and comfort I can find if I look for it anywhere in my state.