Ways of Being

Searching for metaphysical understanding and meaning amongst the rocks and trees. She chooses to work with the pinhole camera because of it’s capacity to capture the poetry of time, place, and spirit as experience. Moving the shim across the pinhole to allow the light in, for the moment to record on the film has become ritual. Metamorphosis is a frequent consequence of the temporal aspect of the process, slowly unexpected forms emerge, un/becoming- figures in the work suggest ephemeral states, a measure of existence, a rhythm with the Earth’s breath, a communion with the crust of dead leaves and soil that give life and shape to her imagination and being. These images were created in camera with one negative exposed using a large format pinhole camera. The images are printed to archival standards. An edition of ten prints are made from each negative. All images are untitled, accompanied by the year the corresponding negative was created.