Selections from Pallor Mortis, Texas

Photobook, 2026

Pallor Mortis, Texas is a photo book speculating a slowing and congealing of collective care. Pallor mortis isn’t referential to a specific place I visited or photographed, but rather a stage of being during death where blood begins to stop circulating in the body.

I spent a great deal of time with Texas-based photography work from the Library of Congress before shooting any work for this book, specifically media from the Great Depression. In the historical literary genre of Southern Gothic, feelings and histories are evoked through visual metaphor and allegory. I tied these visual conventions to places of significance and historical reference, both in my own life and in broader terms.

The final collection of images maps a feeling told through discarded spaces/objects, but also through environment and ecology.