CHEMIGRAMS
My current work explores the coexistence of order, spontaneity, and materiality. The resulting interplay of organic forms and geometric structures gesture toward remembered terrains - fields, tides, distant horizons - yet they are not depictions. Rather, they embody meditations on feeling of place and the slow forces that shape it. I see them as visual echoes of the earth’s ebb and flo: abstract landscapes formed through a process that honors the slow passage of time and sets the mind free to roam. The process of making a chemigram is shaped by the same forces that sculpt mountains and curve valleys, and those same physical rules that guide the formation of an image can, under different conditions and timescales, govern the evolution of entire landscapes. I find that fascinating! I am particularly interested in how the light-sensitive material itself possesses embedded agency and response that emerges from process and interaction to shape the final image.