Bethany Altschwager is an artist and art therapisst born in Connecticut, working in New York, and living in New Jersey. While art always been an important part of her life, it was her early experiences with darkroom photography that inspired her career in the arts. She fell in love with the magic of light and chemistry to create images of new worlds through close up macros, extreme contrast, and double exposure. Early in her career, she drew inspiration from modernists, like Edward Weston, admiring how he framed his compositions of humble objects in ways that mimicked majestic subjects. Her work reflects this appreciation for the surfaces of everyday things. When she moved to New York, the textures around her changed from the bark, stones, and moss of her hometown to the concrete, spray paint, and rust of the city. With the advent of digital photographer, her work seeks to blur the boundaries between art media by combining images of the physical world to create new compositions reflecting our psychological reality. The fragments within the images characterize the uncertainty of world that is in constant flux, shaped by technology, conflict, materialism, and the existential threat of climate change.