I moved into the Logan studio with clear intentions. Set it up properly, ran practice shots, shot a session for In Their Own Light.
Then I moved out.
Looking back, Logan wasn’t really a space, it was an attempt to solve everything at once. Studio, darkroom, gallery, storage, all under one roof. That kind of consolidation sounds efficient on paper. In practice, it meant no part of it got to be fully right. The natural light that made the space feel open was the same light I had to fight every time I needed real control. Public access and wet darkroom work don’t share a room well either, not without compromises I wasn’t willing to keep making.
So I stopped trying to make one space do four jobs.
A studio spot opened up on the Noblesville Creates campus while I was still at Logan. I wasn’t looking for it. I’d just moved in, and chasing the next option out of restlessness isn’t how I want to make decisions. But the more I sat with what NC actually offered, the clearer it got. It wasn’t a bigger or better version of Logan. It was a smaller, narrower answer to a completely different question: where does the work get seen.
I didn’t build a working studio here. I built a room that stays open, stays curated, and lets people walk in without an appointment or an explanation. That’s the whole job it has.
The darkroom and a real dedicated shooting space, the part Logan was supposed to solve, is still an open question. I haven’t stopped looking. I just stopped pretending one room could carry all of it at once.
For now, NC is where the work lives once it’s finished. Where it gets made is still being figured out.
If you want to see the work, it’s already hanging. Come take a look!
