Darkening:

Darkening reveals nighttime worlds otherwise undetected and builds upon photography's historic relationship with making the unseen visible. Influenced by allegorical painting, spirit photography, and notions of the uncanny, I adapt scientific and stealth imaging techniques towards poetic ends. These photographs were shot with the use of camera traps, automated devices that detect heat or movement and then trigger the camera's shutter. While this equipment was originally developed to snare pictures of rare or nocturnal animals, I repurpose it to create enigmatic photographs in which boundaries shift, blurring the lines between human and animal, fact and fiction.  Many images reveal some uncanny tableau: glowing eyes piercing the blackness, a glimpse of a feral woman haunting the forest, or an unexplained spectral light. Like images from a vivid dream, my photographs document a poignant convergence of nature and the psyche.  

Feral:

My photographs fuse performative elements with traditional landscape imagery, in order to explore the metaphoric potential of the environment. My project, Feral, was shot while on solitary kayaking and hiking trips, using a medium format camera and basic camping supplies. In many works, traces of my body are visible as I merge with, take refuge in, and lose myself in the natural world. In some scenes my body is dwarfed by the primordial landscape, as if swallowed up by nature; in others I dissolve myself, in a rush of water, or am nearly engulfed in a creeping fog. Many photographs reveal evidence of some seemingly paranormal event—a fire burning in a river or an ambiguous, intimate encounter with a fox.

These explorations of the unknown landscape suggest a parallel, yet more internal journey, a voyage into the unconscious. In this way, I think of my work as intensely psychological, and each photograph begins to suggest a personal mythology, narratives of metamorphoses and sudden transformation. My work builds on photography's historic dialogue with memory and mortality, presence and absence.