“The Human Quilt” was a portrait series aimed at capturing the unseen thread that exists between every artist, designer, and poet — to celebrate and observe Portland, Oregon's unique creative community. Each portrait was made by projecting an original piece of art onto the back-lit frame of the person who created it.

What started as a personal project quickly turned into a full-blown documentation of twenty influential artists and designers in Portland. The culmination of these efforts resulted an exhibition at Beacon Sound gallery on October 14, 2017. Twenty large-format prints were displayed.

Many of the artists I photographed for this series are dear friends, others are new friends I discovered while pursuing the project. Here's the list of everyone featured, from top to bottom and left to right:

Ellen Wilde
Anton Pearson
Thomas Bradley
Haley Ann Bradley
Caleb Coppock
Orion Janeczek
Brittany Lynn Hagen
Eric Reigert
Brett Stenson
Ben Barry

Cassandra Swan
Justine Robinson
Karen Lee
Rob Lewis
Adam Garcia
Jade Sturms
Nishat Akhtar
Lea Loo
Aaron Rayburn
Eric Nyffeler

Due to time and resources, I had to limit this project to twenty portraits. There are so many others who also deserved to be included in this.

I hope to photograph them too someday.