About Me

I’m Cat. I grew up in Southern California but spent every summer in the Pacific Northwest, and that’s where home always felt. In 2010 I made the move for good… traded smog and palm trees for fog, mountains, and forests that don’t let you forget how alive the earth actually is.

I’m an Air Force veteran. That part of my life gave me discipline, perspective, and a stubborn drive that never left. These days I live with Bilateral Keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition that bends and scatters light, warping sharp lines into halos and blur. I also live with Bilateral Kienböck’s disease in my wrist, bone death that forced a partial fusion. Neither slows me down. They’ve just wired me to approach the world differently, and that difference shows in everything I create.

Photography has been with me since I was 13, when I first picked up a film camera. By my early 20s I’d moved into digital, but the reason I shoot hasn’t changed… it’s how I process and translate the world. My vision doesn’t chase perfect clarity. It seeks mood, distortion, atmosphere in the chaos. My wrist doesn’t always play nice, but making images isn’t optional. It’s who I am, it’s what I do.

My prints aren’t glossy postcards of the Pacific Northwest. They’re translations of what it feels like… fog heavy enough to mute sound, rivers that churn like they’re breathing, forests where the light breaks in ways you can’t predict.

Every piece I create is proof that beauty doesn’t demand perfection or ease. It comes from persistence, from grit, from refusing to stop creating.