Every Shadow Has An Answer

My work is a swirling devotion to process and surrender.

Since 2019, cyanotype has taught me subversive techniques via states of play, acceptance and transformation. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process where light-sensitive chemicals are applied to a surface like paper or fabric, exposed to UV light, and developed with water to create brilliant blue and white images. Additional processes like bleaching and toning (with everyday kitchen witchery like baking soda or tea!) make for additional color possibilities using the same old chemistry.

Both imagery and process are relational – explorations through layers and adjacent chemical reactions. The paper holds the memory of each new layer, dodging destruction while creating space for possibility. An autodidact in this medium, I cultivate a curious relationship with what emerges. This generative inertia continually invites me to learn and for my work to transform.

August 2024

Much of this work was on view at the Olympic Mills Building in November 2024 for the Ulna Community Art Show, at Corridor Gallery in Vancouver, Washington, from August 1 through October 25, 2024, and at Rivermark Credit Union on Hawthorne in Portland, Oregon, in August 2024.