A cave serves as a site of resistance. Defined by darkness, it resists our need to illuminate and make sense of it. My work highlights the struggle to comprehend the Earth, and the way that our presence and projections are intrusive, even violent, both below and across the surface.
Human influence on our environment has seeped below our awareness, and I engage with this influence through the complexities of sight and darkness. The light we bring into a cave shapes our perception, and as we illuminate the darkness, we impose our own will upon it. Our engagement with the world is always an act of negotiation, an attempt to bring order to chaos, even when the space resists it.
Through the cave, my studio, and the gallery, images move uncertainly between observation and construction, where the camera does not simply record the cave but rather participates in inventing it. In this invention, I shine a spotlight on our involvement in spaces that should remain hidden. Negotiating the darkness, I challenge our hierarchy and put us below the horizon line.