a series of images issued from personal project work on boundaries
Being in the mountains feels like coming home. I received my first camera during the summer of 1987 and my first photos are of these mountain ranges. I use an old analog camera issued in 1987 for this ongoing project as a throw back to those days. I focus on the enormity of the geology and how, throughout time, man has created paths and refuges amongst these difficult landscapes for the sole purpose of making the discovery, and the crossing of them, possible. It’s one of the beautiful legacies of man.
2014 -
"Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you."
Annie Dillard
Cliousclat, France, 2018
Ljunghusen, Sweden, 2016
Ljunghusen, Sweden, 2016
Human beings relationship to nature is curve like. That relationship expands over many years, as we develop the physical tools and maturity to explore the world outside our homes, to travel and to exist within the outside world. As we age, the ability to roam gradually leaves us until we are again confined to the inside, looking out. I shot this project with the residents of the Venta retirement home in Kuldiga, Latvia, 2015.
The weave residency bought together 60 performance artists under the same roof for a week of improvisation and self discovery. Traditionally, our body movements and expressions are consciously or unconsciously tied to our gender performance. I wanted to blur those lines. These artists are using their bodies to express themselves and yet gender stereotypes are secondary in their expression - sometimes their gender identity is unclear, at other times their attitudes are countering our assimilated visions of what is male or female - I hope to push people to question these norms.
Weave Residency, Brussels, 2013
