A gust of wind that sets the ears of corn in the field in motion, a slowly melting drop of ice – nothing and yet part of the sum of our existence. The present of the past inscribed directly on light-sensitive paper and set in a frame. Since 2015, I have been exploring elementary questions about the creation of an image and the possibility of capturing ephemeral phenomena using the photographic printing process of cyanotype. I experiment with negative and positive, light and shadow, the visible and the invisible - challenging us to see the familiar in a new light. My work can be read as a reference to the existence of the objects, whose molecules are imprinted on the paper as shadows of themselves. Tangible on paper and yet only the trace of what was there before. I work with borrowed images from nature. Like a mirror, I place the light-sensitive paper in the landscape, attache it to vines or wet it with seawater. Movement, object, year, season and time of day are left to inscribe themselves poetically onto the paper. 

I capture what is fleeting and use cyanotypes to ask questions about the essence of nature and its transience. My photographic experiments capture the soul of nature in a direct and pure manner.

negative and positive
light and shadow
visible and invisible
water and ground

panta rhei.