Covered in Snow
Project In Progress
Covered In Snow is a photographic exploration of maternal loss, environmental decay, and senseless acts of violence in my hometown of Canton, Ohio. In the wake of a miscarriage, I began researching a series of accidental deaths throughout the northeast Ohio region caused by tree strikes. Only months after I began photographing the landscapes connected to these accidental deaths, two women in my county were killed in acts of domestic violence within the same month. The trees and the men of my hometown were consuming women.
My research into these incidents has been largely in part of my own inability to reconcile with my grief. The loss of a life that never was felt as inexplicable as the loss of life from a fallen tree, and as impossible to understand as the uptick in deliberate acts of violence against women. I returned to the sites of each of the deaths, photographing the surroundings and looking for any evidence hidden within the landscape. Utilizing multiple photographic techniques, I’ve spent the past year searching the landscape of Ohio for answers. Through conversations with abuse survivors and women reconciling with their own losses, I’ve begun to piece together a web of images that discuss how violence and grief haunt a landscape and a body.
