My cameraless photographs interweave the personal and the political, reflecting on the erosion of American social fabric under fascism, the current strain on the sanctity of the natural world, and my own lived experiences as a queer woman. These experiences are politicized and the harm being done to people and the environment is unquestionably personal. Using light-sensitive photographic materials such as film, paper and chemicals, I seek out conditions that yield unpredictable results under strain, testing the resilience of materials that are traditionally considered fragile or delicate.
Embracing chance, subverting “normal” photographic processes through glitch or error, researching evolving current events, and reflecting on my own stories and memories inform the physical act of making the work. I press my resist-coated body onto paper, creating textural imprints further shaped by chemical process and chance. I draw graphite lines, grids and repetitive words or phrases onto paper that emerge from, or recede into the background of the print after chemical processing. I place natural materials and the bodies of found wildlife onto sheet film that erodes slowly within the environment, collaborating with weather, the movement of water, and decomposition to create previously unseen beauty outside of my control. I embed symbols, such as the triangle, to represent individual perception, vision, and the inner light I believe is present within each of us.
Through my practice as an artist and this work, I seek to create imperfect typologies and records of time, change, and memory in this time of the Anthropocene, calling attention to the injustice unfolding around us while affirming that joy, resistance, and hope reside within collective landscapes of body, spirit and community.