Because For Now There is Still Poetry
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Because For Now There is Still Poetry are stories assembled to cast a spotlight on the lands that carry the scars of extraction from mining and chemical cultivation. Strategic minerals necessary for national defense and military operations or those used for cultivating land are isolated and expanded on, from Mosaic mines in Florida that harvests phosphate to Eagle Mine in Michigan that harvests cobalt. These same minerals are also essential to the production of photography. Through still lives, this work focuses on the contradictions in photography and pieces together ever-ending maps of logistics, harvesting, transportation, manufacturing parts, money and the needs that make up the supply chain of strategic minerals as a way to comprehend nature morte that has been always been traditionally captured through painting, photography, zoological and botanical illustration.

Silence Contained for Years, 2018	Ash Flower, 2018	Between Bears Ears and Daneros Mine	Phosphate Mine, 2018
Held My Breath and Didn't Hear Anything (still life)	On Being Blue, 2017	Act Without Words, 2016	Ore Transfer Station, 2016
Endgame, 2018	Eagle Mine, 2016	Manufacturing A Rise And Fall, 2018	Enough Is When Is Enough, 2018
Eagle Mine in the Morning, 2016	Over and Over and, 2018	Abandoned Mine Texas, 2017	Grand Staircase National Monument