STATEMENT:  November 10, 2020.  Six am.  One week after the presidential election had taken place in the United States and there is still chaos created by a sitting president who desperately tries to alter reality. I opened the refrigerator and saw some kale I had forgotten to cook.  It was broken. I was broken.  I was stressed. I was depleted.  I had spent 9 months dumbfounded by the lies, contradictions, and disruptive behavior of the President of the United States. And, here, one week after the election, Donald J. Trump was still insisting that he won the election. The kale epitomized my world.  Words failed me, but my photographs could express my state. Exhaustion.  Depletion. Lack of mental, physical, and spiritual vigor. The series Enervate came into being.

The forgotten vegetables have become material I need to start a new chapter, a new direction.