Darkening:

My series Darkening reveals nighttime worlds otherwise undetected.In this work, I build on photography’s historic relationship with making the unseen visible and allude to notions of capture, evidence, and voyeurism inherent in the medium.  Darkening was shot using a “camera trap,” an automated device that employs an infrared sensor to detect the presence of an animal and then triggers the camera’s shutter. My project combines this stealth technology with a gothic sensibility. Many images reveal some uncanny tableau: glowing eyes piercing the blackness, a glimpse of a feral woman haunting the forest, or a unexplained spectral light. Through these enigmatic photographs, boundaries shift, blurring the line between human and animal, fact and fiction. 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 suggests 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. My work builds on photography's historic dialogue with memory and mortality, presence and absence. Important influences also include turn-of-the-century Spirit Photography and acts of sudden transformation found in myths.