Light Play

Inhabiting the boundary between photography, painting, drawing and printmaking, Light Play (2017- present) is a series of abstract photographic works exploring the ethereal and transitory nature of light. A highly experimental, studio-based project involving a large, wooden, pinhole camera and cameraless photographic techniques, Light Play captures magnifications of light and shadow as they coalesce and disperse during their brief transit through constructions made from glass. Though Light Play draws attention to a simple, fleeting and normally unseen occurrence, it is not merely a record, or tracing, of the light’s passage, but an act of photographic mark-making resulting from extensive testing, observation and manipulation of light to create new shapes and patterns within the glass. The series invites the viewer to contemplate polarities such as absence and presence, concealment and revelation, permanence and evanescence. The Light Play series includes pinhole photographs, collages, photograms, painted photographs and etchings as well as silver gelatin prints made from etched negatives and the cliché verre technique. A book and multiple boxed sets of prints will be forthcoming.