- Margaret Atwood in This is a Photograph of Me

Artist Statement

With photography, animation, sculpture, and interactivity, I combine mystery with technology to create eerie, ephemeral encounters between the viewer and my imagined world. There is an unspoken agreement between the work and the viewer that this world does exist, and they can be a part of that world if they step closer.

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I use play as my process and inspiration for making these spaces. My process is equally planned and intuitive with the goal of suspending disbelief. I am my work’s conjugate, allowing the medium and my imagined world to reveal itself through me. My pieces use a combination of digital, auditory, and traditional media to aid the illusion of a foreign realm breaking through, subverting expectation, and suspending disbelief. Subtlety is essential in my practice, so by keeping technology hidden, making the work interactive, and breaking the expectation of a static image or object by adding animation and sound, my work inspires curiosity.

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My work occupies a dream-space, full of shadow and gritty colour. The figures I incorporate often have non-descript faces, as it adds ambiguity to identity, making them incorporeal and malleable in nature. It incorporates materials that create an immersive ‘witching hour’ atmosphere and narrative, whether by using lighting, rags, or watercolour paint. Much like in ghost photography, my work uses the presumption that the medium is traditionally documentational to act as a vessel for my own lore and spirits. In my current work I am using dim light, which stimulates the viewers’ imagination to give life to what they cannot see clearly. My pieces rely on the fact that the human mind is potent. Like in horror, the less the monster is revealed, the more terrifying it is.

I am a storyteller. I create an all-encompassing experience, not just a moment on the wall. My work is a celebration of the unknown. The things we wish were real, and what might be real. The unseen. The unexplainable. The incomprehensible wonder of the world and the possibility of others beyond the veil. It invites the curious to uncover the strange shadows you see out of the corner of your eye, the fairies that play tricks on you, and the creatures you swear you see right before you blink.