First Taste, Again

2016 · Film Photography / FM2 · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam This year, Pat and I came to Ho Chi Minh City.It was his first time here — but not mine. Ho Chi Minh City was the very first…
Creation is a collection of artistic works exploring presence, emotional process, and lived experience through visual creation.

2016 · Film Photography / FM2 · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam This year, Pat and I came to Ho Chi Minh City.It was his first time here — but not mine. Ho Chi Minh City was the very first…

June 2015 · Film Photography · Taipei, Taiwan After returning to Taiwan from Canada, the first thing I searched for wasn’t food, friends, or even home. It was a film lab. In the digital age, finding a place that still…

May 2015 · Film Photography / FM2 · Simcoe, Ontario, Canada 2015 was the year I quietly began searching for the meaning of love again. Not the dramatic kind we see in movies.Not the loud, passionate, fireworks kind. But the…

2015 — Toronto, CanadaSLR Photography It was the middle of summer. Toronto was warm and bright, the kind of afternoon where the light feels almost too generous. The trees were full, branches stretching wide, leaves moving softly in the wind.…

October 2014 · Colored Marker Illustration · Bangkok, Thailand PP Journey began without a plan. I didn’t wake up that morning thinking I was going to create a series.There was no concept, no storyboard, no intention to “make art.” All…

2014 · Film Photography / FM2 · Bangkok, Thailand Every time I look at this photograph, a quiet heaviness returns. Not sadness exactly. More like a soft ache. The kind that sits somewhere between memory and acceptance. October, 2014. Bangkok.…

2014 · Film Photography · Banqiao, New Taipei City, Taiwan 2014 marked a quiet turning point in our lives. That year, Pat stepped into his fiftieth year. Fifty sounds like a simple number when you say it out loud, but…

2002 — Kyoto, JapanFilm Photography It was our first time in Kyoto. November. The air was cold but incredibly clear. The kind of cold that wakes you up instead of making you tired. We walked for a long time that…

May 2002 — Santorini, GreeceFilm Photography Everything looked unreal. White walls.Blue sea.Sharp sunlight. As if someone had increased the contrast of the world. It was our first long trip together — Turkey and Greece, moving from city to city with…

2001 · Film Photography · Koh Samet, Thailand This was the first time I ever traveled abroad with a partner. I was twenty-one. I didn’t really know what I was doing.I didn’t know how trips worked.I didn’t know what could…