fLIGHT
My photographic practice operates as a kind of creative field research into the subtle dynamics of local environments. While photography offers the capacity for instantaneous capture, I intentionally extend the time-frame of observation remaining in a single site for hours, sometimes days, to recalibrate my perception and engage with the rhythms of the environment. I deliberately decelerate the process.
This approach privileges presence over immediacy, inviting overlooked or ephemeral phenomena to enter into the frame. The process is inherently indeterminate: at times subjects emerge with clarity, at others they resist articulation, reminding me of the contingent nature of knowledge and perception alike.
The resulting images are best understood as research artefacts, fragmentary, subjective records of situated experience which map an ongoing inquiry into what it means to see, to stay, and to inhabit a landscape attentively.
This approach privileges presence over immediacy, inviting overlooked or ephemeral phenomena to enter into the frame. The process is inherently indeterminate: at times subjects emerge with clarity, at others they resist articulation, reminding me of the contingent nature of knowledge and perception alike.
The resulting images are best understood as research artefacts, fragmentary, subjective records of situated experience which map an ongoing inquiry into what it means to see, to stay, and to inhabit a landscape attentively.
