Air Index

Existing at the intersection of photography and sculpture, my work investigates our broader human experience through light, perception, and time. Inspired by my early childhood memories spent in the wilderness of northeastern Québec, my anthropology background and an interest in my Indigenous Innus heritage, I create cameraless prints using symbols, forms, and hues drawing on astronomy, transcendentalism, and the sublime. I collect, fabricate, and compose reflective tools from bent metal and glass to create new photographic documents using the lumen print process. This process involves capturing exposures of natural and artificial light sources on gelatin silver paper; the resulting works oscillate between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional objects. Each piece becomes a record of the moment of its creation while connecting us to the position of the sun, and the universe, throughout the seasons and in relation to our location. Challenging our ability to comprehend and expressing our desire to find meaning in the unknown, my work is simultaneously personal and universal, connecting the ever-changing state of light and time with the fluctuations of the natural world.