KAYAKING DETROIT began in 2016 as a way to photograph areas of Delray, Oakwood Heights, Carbon Works, and other city locations from hard-to-see vantage points and perspectives and to observe nature and animal life that is often otherwise unseen. During the years since, the project expanded, and the experience of kayaking developed into a full-blown art project with thousands of photographs and its own sub-series, KAYAKING THE ROUGE. Beginning with the COVID-19 quarantine in the spring of 2020, the unexpected free time was used to kayak the city, further exploring ideas for which I previously had zero time. This led to my first water-based film, Kayaking Through The Quarantimes. A 20-minute video filmed throughout Detroit and Southeast Michigan over the course of 2020, the work was compiled from seventeen different kayaking trips between April and December using both an iPhone and a GoPro camera. The completed film includes 132 clips from these trips, featuring many locations along the Detroit River, Rouge River, Saginaw River, Maumee River, Huron River, and Lake Erie. Kayaking was an antidote to a challenging year: observing, meditating, finding solace in nature, getting fresh air and exercise, and working through ideas, all while socially distancing from others.e kayak. In this series, you can see all of the things I've been photographing from the kayak, from the waterways in and around Metropolitan Detroit.