“Our environment has been significantly altered. We live with nature at arm’s length.”

 - Robert Adams

My earliest memories of the darkroom are of those exhilarating moments when an image in a tray first floats into view, slowly revealing its mystery. I became a photographer because the medium has an incredible alchemy, and the power to reveal the unseen. This liminal space of emergence is at the heart of my work as a visual artist

Limen/Lumen

The word “lumen” means amount of brightness, a measure of visible light. Similarly, the Latin word “limen” means threshold, a register of perception between the visible and invisible. In anthropology, liminality is “the quality of ambiguity in the mid-stage of a rite of passage, “During a ritual's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold” between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, which the ritual establishes.”

These images were made during several residencies - at Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Hambidge Center, and Penland Center for Arts and Crafts. Residencies are set up to be a sacred space in time, away from the world of the every day. To me, they feel akin to a threshold state, a mad push where new work and all it investigates is in process but not yet realized. Mid-life, mid-pandemic, mid-motherhood/teaching/creating, I became interested in the idea of standing at a threshold- in the liminal space between the interior and exterior world, the visible past and the immediate future. These images investigate the surface of the photograph and three-dimensional space as it relates to time. The landscapes in these images are re-photographed at different moments with different depths of field and focal points. Here place is tied to memory, to longing - and our emotional, physical and intellectual relationship with the landscape. These assembled photographs are the waiting areas between one point in time and space and the next.