These explorations of the unknown landscape also allude to a parallel, yet more internal, investigation 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 mortality and memory, presence and absence.
Important influences include Freud’s concepts of the uncanny, turn-of-the-century “spirit photography,” and acts of sudden transformation found in myths. Like images from a vivid dream, my photographs document a poignant convergence of nature and the psyche.