“As The Days Go By is a dynamic digital collage composed of eleven of my own photographs, all sourced from my personal archive and taken across Italy, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, and Florida. The piece transitions in real time, appearing in daylight hues during the day and shifting into moonlit tones at night and in the early morning, mirroring the natural rhythm of time passing.

I began working with digital collage during a period when I was unable to travel much. Photography has always been rooted in exploration for me, and being confined created a tension between the desire to make new work and the inability to experience new places. That tension became the foundation of my collage practice. I turned inward, digging through my archive and spending hours pairing images that felt intrinsically connected, dissecting and rebuilding photographs to construct entirely new, imagined environments. The goal was to create my “perfect photograph” without leaving home, with the sole constraint that every element originate from my own archive, keeping each work grounded in places I have physically experienced.

This piece began while revisiting a body of work from Italy. The base layer was photographed in Portofino in May 2025 and merges two separate views of the harbor, one emphasizing the water and boats, the other anchoring the scene with dense greenery and a red shoreline building. Combining these perspectives allowed the foreground to feel fuller and more immersive.

From there, the landscape begins to open up beyond the coastline. I’ve always felt drawn to both coastal and alpine environments in my photography, and collage allows those worlds to exist together without hierarchy. Rather than anchoring the image to a single place, the mountains help expand the scene into something imagined, shaped more by feeling than geography.

The transition between day and night became a central part of the work. For the nighttime scene, I focused on creating a sense of quiet and stillness, building the image detail by detail and allowing small elements of light to emerge slowly across the harbor. During the daytime, the foreground takes precedence, supported by a clear, open sky that lets the scene breathe. Instead of choosing one moment over the other, both are combined into a continuous loop, allowing the image to move naturally through time.

By blending photographs from across continents into a single imagined landscape, As The Days Go By becomes both a memory and a metaphor, a place that does not exist yet feels familiar and comforting. The dynamic nature of the piece allows it to live and breathe with time itself. It is a reminder that light is never still, and that the digital medium gives us a new way to express this continual transformation. Dynamic works like this could only exist through digital art, reflecting not just the passage of a single day but our evolving relationship with time, technology, and attention.

Ultimately, As The Days Go By is an invitation to pause and look closer, to recognize the quiet beauty unfolding around us, moment by moment, as the days go by.”