This body of work traces my long, evolving relationship with Buttercup, a band that has, over the years, become inseparable from the cultural texture of San Antonio. Over the years, I've returned again and again to their shows-not simply to document, but to witness how music inhabits a space, how it transforms a room, and how it binds a community, however brietly, into something shared and electric.
These photographs are not about spectacle alone.
They are about accumulation: of moments, of gestures, of light caught mid-motion, of faces suspended between concentration and abandon. Buttercup's performances carry an immediacy that resists repetition, yet in revisiting them over time, patterns emerge-recurring postures, familiar tensions, the quiet rituals before and after sound.
The camera becomes a way of listening, of translating rhythm into image. These images resist the polish often associated with music photography.
Instead, they lean into the blur, the shadow, the in-between moments: a glance exchanged mid-song, the collapse of posture after a crescendo, the quiet recalibration before the next note.
I am less interested in spectacle than in presence-in the fragile, electric space where something real is happening and might disappear at any second.
This exhibit is, ultimately, an archive of impermanence.
Live music exists in time, then vanishes.
What remains are fragments-light caught on skin, motion dissolved into grain, the echo of a song held in a still frame. Through these images, I hope to honor the ephemeral nature of performance while acknowledging the deeper continuity it creates:
a community, a memory, a rhythm that persists long after the last note fades.

Exhibition Opening: May 9, 2026 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
(Live music by Buttercup at 7:30pm)
Magical Realism Studio
107 Lone Star Blvd. (107-B)