Ante Meridiem (2014 -2017)

Each photograph in Ante Meridiem is a single exposure made in the darkness of night. Developed over three years and relying on seasonal lunar phases, the only source of illumination in the process-based series is the reflected light of a full Moon at perigee (the Moon’s closest point of orbit to Earth). Engaging the traditions both of landscape and self-portrait photography, the images in this series document a durational encounter between the artist and a landscape barely visible in the night. The uncanny image holds time, darkness, and the motion of the earth in partial suspension. As in Kant’s definition (1790), the mutual delight and displeasure of the sublime is provoked by an aesthetic experience of nature that exceeds the human scale of perception and comprehension.