Faith & Flesh
Faith & Flesh is an ongoing photographic project developed as part of my MFA in Photography & Image-Making at Paris College of Art. Rooted in my Southern evangelical upbringing, the work explores the inherited tension between sexuality and Christianity and examines how purity culture shaped my early understanding of the body, desire, and what was considered sacred.
Drawing from the visual language of evangelical Christianity and abstinence campaigns, the project considers how belief systems are reinforced through images and material culture. Working across photography, video, and installation, I revisit these structures not to offer resolution, but to create space for reflection, questioning, and reimagination.
By placing the body at the center of the frame, Faith & Flesh asks whether something can be both sacred and fully human, and what it means to live inside that tension.
Body of Christ, 2025
Purity Culture: An Apéritif
A 14-minute moving-image work composed of archival fragments from sermons, documentaries, news broadcasts, and religious media shaped by American evangelical purity culture. Spliced together through rhythm and juxtaposition, the film traces the visual and rhetorical strategies that framed sexuality for an entire generation.
Part introduction and part atmosphere-setter, the piece functions as an entry point into the larger Faith & Flesh project. Rather than offering explanation, it immerses the viewer in the imagery, language, and emotional registers that informed my early understanding of the body, morality, and desire.
Presented alongside the photographic work, the film invites viewers to encounter the cultural backdrop of the project before stepping into its reimagined visual world.
Faith & Flesh, Triptych #1, 2026
Installation Study: Fall 2025
Presented as the first installation of Faith & Flesh, this spatial study explored how the photographs operate when experienced collectively rather than individually. By translating the work into an environmental format, the project expanded from image-making into atmosphere-building.
The arrangement considered proximity, scale, and sightline, encouraging an encounter that is both intimate and confrontational. Here, the viewer does not simply look at the body, they move in relation to it.
This early installation establishes a foundation for future exhibitions as the project continues to evolve.
Faith & Flesh, Triptych #2, 2025
Incarnation, 2025
Faith & Flesh, Diptych #1, 2025
“Works of the Flesh” - First Edition Zine
This first edition zine features 12 selected images from Works of the Flesh, each paired with intentional reflection questions.
Rather than offering answers, the publication invites pause. The questions are designed to slow the viewing process and create space for deeper consideration, of the body, of belief, of what we’ve inherited and what we might choose to reclaim.
Printed in a small run on uncoated paper, the zine is meant to be written in. It can function as a mini journal, a place to respond, reflect, and track your own thoughts as you move through the work.
Part artwork, part prompt, this edition is designed to be engaged with, not just viewed.
Two Shall Become, 2025
Faith & Flesh, Diptych #4, 2025
Nashville Exhibition: Works of the Flesh
Nashville, March 7, 2026
Presented in Nashville, Works of the Flesh was the first public exhibition from my ongoing thesis project, Faith & Flesh.
Installed together, the photographs begin to operate as a single image, forming a larger conversation about the tension between the body and Christianity.
This exhibition marks an early chapter in the development of Faith & Flesh.
Faith & Flesh, Diptych #5, 2025
Body of Christ 2, 2026
En Corps: Joint Exposition with Taylor Prinsen
Paris, March , 2026
Presented in Paris, EN CORPS is a joint exhibition with Taylor Prinsen, bringing together two photographic projects shaped by our shared experience of growing up in conservative environments in the American South.
Installed together, the works place the body in conversation with the systems that have shaped how it is seen, understood, and experienced. Through different approaches, both projects explore what happens when that context shifts when the body moves outside of performance, expectation, or control.
This exhibition marks an early public presentation of Faith & Flesh, continuing its development while opening the work into dialogue with another practice.
Untitled #1, 2025
Untitled Diptych #1, 2025
Untitled #2, 2026
Stain Glass, Draft #1
Stained Glass Study
This work began as an experiment in bringing the visual language of Christian stained glass into my photographic practice. Photographs of the body were printed onto transparent film and layered together to create compositions that mimic the fragmented colors and illuminated surfaces of stained-glass windows.
Created as part of my ongoing research into evangelical purity culture, these studies explore the relationship between the body, faith, and religious image-making. By constructing stained-glass-like forms from photographs of flesh, the work reimagines a traditional religious medium through the body itself.
Scripture Studies
As part of my research into evangelical purity culture, I have been studying how images function within the churches I grew up in. Unlike many religious traditions that embrace images as devotional objects, Protestant churches often pair images with scripture. The image helps explain the text, but the text also guides and limits how the image is understood.
These works adopt that same structure. Photographs are layered with pages from the Bible I carried while serving as a pastor, as well as passages frequently used in discussions of sexuality and purity. By placing body and scripture within the same frame, the work examines how religious language shapes the ways bodies are seen, understood, and experienced.
