Artist Statement

Grounded in photography and shaped by a lifelong experience of visual disability, my work moves between alternative photographic processes, collage, digital and material forms of image construction. This foundation informs how I approach images and how ways of seeing may be felt, disrupted, and interpreted. Earlier works focused on the fear of losing my sight and the cognitive labour of perception; more recently, my attention has shifted toward the emotional terrain that lies beneath.

These works are shaped through manipulated processes: oxidized cyanotypes, transfers, and even alterations to common laser prints. Surfaces stain, warp, and shift, and each image becomes a negotiation with materials and processes where instability is carried forward as part of the work itself.

Collage extends this negotiation by bringing conflicting elements together. Images are layered, broken apart, and reassembled with their seams exposed, while gestures and elements reappear across series. I think of this work as pushing the photograph toward instability and use collage more as a form of erosion than construction.

Through self-portraiture, emotional and perceptual tensions become embodied; the figure appears fractured, turned away, or multiplied across frames, but is rarely whole. In many of these portraits, I wear a dark suit as an emblem of control and restraint. When drenched in rain, covered in snow, or submerged in water, its promise of composure gives way, and its anonymity and formality become an ineffective armour.

The landscapes that accompany these portraits are equally unsettled: skies split across exposures, waves double back unnaturally and light shifts unpredictably. Rather than depicting singular places, they are compressed and layered spaces where familiar elements from an amalgamation of experiences slip out of alignment.

Intentional gaps in the images don’t offer succinct explanations, allowing them to breathe, leak, and shift. The work invites an encounter not with what I see, but with something that resists closure, where emotional, perceptual, and material conditions remain in flux. Here the collaged images, altered surfaces, fragmented figures, and layered landscapes all speak to the difficulty of holding things together and the quiet persistence of trying anyway.