artist statement

My practice uses self-portraiture as a form of inner inquiry. Photography becomes less a tool of representation than a process of listening, allowing images to surface from emotional, psychological, and symbolic landscapes rather than from the visible world alone.

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Working with natural light, long exposure, and movement, I intentionally relinquish certainty. I photograph without fully seeing, allowing intuition, the body, and chance to guide the making of the image before understanding has the opportunity to intervene. The camera becomes less an instrument of control than a witness to a process of descent.

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Rather than constructing photographs, I uncover them.

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My work inhabits the threshold between presence and absence, faith and doubt, darkness and light. Rooted in personal experience yet resisting autobiography, it explores photography as a ritual of encounter—a way of meeting aspects of the self that resist language and allowing them to emerge without asking them to become legible.

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An early life surrounded by Romantic painting, together with a growing affinity for the dramatic use of light and shadow found in Baroque painting—particularly Caravaggio—continues to shape my visual sensibility. Rather than illustrating narratives, I seek to create images that exist in a state of becoming, where ambiguity is not something to resolve but something to inhabit.

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Photography has become both refuge and ritual: a place where uncertainty is welcomed, perception is trusted, and what lies beneath the surface is invited into light.