Living Within the Image2026

"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties." —Djuna Barnes

Imagination is the capacity, and the precondition, for producing and decoding symbols. Like writing, images are symbolic structures through which experience survives its immediacy and reappears, altered. Through processes of encoding and decoding, experience becomes persistent, portable, and legible, inseparable from the limits that give it form.

The works in this series explore these ideas by working at the edges of the image, through personal subject matter and my natural surroundings. Still images are drawn toward duration, reflecting a shift in temporal register that accompanies parenthood. The path of a stream is re-encoded through the motion of the camera traversing it. The infinite novelty of ocean waves is suggested in its negation, as video approaches stillness through repetition. The past enters the present through narrow slices of scanned photographs of my childhood home.

I come to lens-based work because of how closely its images seem to reflect the world around us, how much the snapshot can feel like a persistent present. At the same time, photography’s fundamental operations point not to the world itself or to an authorial gesture, but to the shared systems through which experience is mediated. I’m interested in how these imaging systems shape what we take the world to be, rather than simply reflect it. Where does the image end?