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Blue at the edge

2025-
Archival pigment prints
500 x 400mm
Edition 3 plus 2 AP

These photographs are made by picking up things found on the ground and placing them in front of the camera—stones, leaves, bottle caps, small insects, ordinary fragments encountered in my immediate surroundings. While thinking about birds in flight and continuing to observe traces on the ground each day, an image began to form in my mind in which these orientations seemed to reverse. I started to wonder whether, by looking at the world as if looking up rather than down—as if heaven and earth were turned over—different layers of space might be held within a single frame. Photographing in this way shifts the ground from a flat surface at my feet into something that opens and extends into depth, so that the sky, the trees and buildings in between, and even my own shadow as the photographer enter the image together, while light, weather, and the season of that moment become inseparable from what is seen. Placing found objects on the lens feels somewhat like making a collage directly within the field of vision; if the wind blows, they may be carried away, and if it rains, the lens becomes wet, but I did not want to actively control these elements, allowing chance and environment to remain visible within the image. By gently dissolving boundaries, this work explores how a photograph can hold living and non-living things, the photographer and the subject, intention and accident, and the coexistence of vast distance and intimate closeness within the same visual space.