Ephemerality

I created Ephemerality as a way to explore my own femininity while out adventuring in environments that have traditionally been considered the domain of men.  Harsh, bleak landscapes call to me in a way that makes me feel vividly alive. There are many images of places like this, usually featuring a man in outdoor gear, staring off into the distance. My vision for this series was to prove to myself, and others, that femininity also belongs. Self portraits deep in the Canadian Rocky glaciers or along slick Greenlandic oceanside cliffs were an opportunity for me to tap into my own feminine connection with the environment. The experience wasn’t about conquering a peak or bagging a specific hike; it was to be fully present with all of my senses and feel truly engaged with my surroundings. After reaching the location I knew I would shoot, I swathed myself in phantom-like fabric, not to become anonymous, but rather to invite the viewer to imagine a different perspective glacier ice, moonlight, fingers of red banded stone slick basalt, golden glow, ancient floes washed ashore rivers rage towards oblivion as she watches, perched on edge longing for sublimation, illumination, an invitation to be a witness, watching the earth as it unfurls or maybe a lover, to feel the gentle caress of time dancing on the wind asking her to surrender to the ephemeral a crack, a crash a gleam of light and she is gone