I am an artist working with analog photography, film, and text, grounded in long-term research and fieldwork.
My work centers the landscape and place, a means of connecting with and bringing into focus the uncanny and intangible qualities of environments, exploring whether the feeling of a place is inherent to it, or whether one's interiority can inform its atmosphere.
These elusive qualities become material once captured and absorbed by photographic emulsion, flattened and forever bound to film. The negative becomes an artifact, an imprint, a ghost of an experience of time and a witness to the exposed ancient sunlight that 'happened' before (the sunlight we see is tens of thousands of years old). When energy, light, and matter come together, these invisible phenomena become visible and tangible.
My writing is informed by the relationship between cinema, art history, and psychoanalytic theory, often using these frameworks to think through images, desire, memory, and perception. I’m interested in how meaning is produced through looking—how images circulate emotionally as well as historically—and how language mediates that encounter.
My work centers the landscape and place, a means of connecting with and bringing into focus the uncanny and intangible qualities of environments, exploring whether the feeling of a place is inherent to it, or whether one's interiority can inform its atmosphere.
These elusive qualities become material once captured and absorbed by photographic emulsion, flattened and forever bound to film. The negative becomes an artifact, an imprint, a ghost of an experience of time and a witness to the exposed ancient sunlight that 'happened' before (the sunlight we see is tens of thousands of years old). When energy, light, and matter come together, these invisible phenomena become visible and tangible.
My writing is informed by the relationship between cinema, art history, and psychoanalytic theory, often using these frameworks to think through images, desire, memory, and perception. I’m interested in how meaning is produced through looking—how images circulate emotionally as well as historically—and how language mediates that encounter.
When I’m not making pictures, you can find me here:
NOIMA
Richard Erdman Studios
Another Earth
Daffodil Records
Writing and books:
- You’ll Never Have Me: Projections on the Screen of Impossible Desire
originally published in AUTRE’s 2025 Desire issue. Print.
- Motherhouse (photo book)
publishd by Another Earth, 2025. Print.
- Notes on Sunshine State: the Work of Steve McQueen
originally published in AUTRE’s 2023 Instinct issue. Print.
- Entering A World of Concerns: Agnes Denes
orignally published in AUTRE’s 2023 Utopia issue. Print
- Earth Works Aren’t Easy: Interview of Michelle Stuart
originally published in AUTRE’s 2021 Biodiversity issue. Print.
- Romancing A Wound: Interview of Estefania Puerta. Online.
- Pacing Around My Desire: nterview of Carmen Winant. Online.
- Unseen And Immaterial: Interview with Amanda Turner Pohan. Online.
- Crackle & Drag: Interview with Artist TR Ericsson. Online.
- Bad Woman: Interview of Katya Grokhovsky. Online.
- Art From the Dark Heart of Europe: Interview with Harlan Levey. Online.
- Traces In the Snow: Interview with Artist Isabelle Wenzel. Online.
- Liquid State: Interview with Sculptor Jonathan Prince. Online.
- Southern Gothic: Interview with Bradley Bailey. Online.
- VHS Sex: Interview with Com Truise. Online.
- What Does Jesus Think of Lap Dancing? Online.
- The World According to KEEFJNAK: Interview with Alexander Keefe. Online.