Muffled Presence
Cornish College of the Arts, 2019 BFA Showcase
Cornish College of the Arts, 2019 BFA Showcase
I’m a photographer exploring the materiality of photography and what it means to make a picture by employing elements of light and sculpture. This work isn’t meant to be considered a literal representation, but rather a way of navigating past experiences, life, and the world around me. My work is invested in the very definition of photography as writing or painting with light which focuses on the use of light in creating an image. In this sense, photography could technically be anything created using light, therefore drastically changing the mere idea of the photograph to encompass something as simple as a shadow frozen on the wall. The play between shadow and illumination is an essential part of my practice and often references the shifting and changing quality of my own childhood memories in which light is the ever present focal point. For this reason I use light in a very intentional way as representation of memories, and, similar to the quality of light, how easily warped or fragmented they can become.