ten miles out

2020–24

On the other side of half-light lives half-dark. My new body of photomontages focuses equally on what’s obscured as on what’s revealed. I’m interested in the strange beauty that unfolds before total darkness sets in — when the familiar dissolves into the uncanny. Scenes we think we know are subtly altered; their details soften, their boundaries shift. A house becomes its own doppelgänger — recognizable, yet transformed. Rooflines give way to crisp triangles against sloping curves, while identifying features blur and recede. Moons often appear — suspended and watchful — echoing the pull of light and shadow.

Each piece in this show contains elements from up to a dozen of my own photographs. I shoot primarily on film, then manipulate and digitally collage these images to create textural landscapes that hover between fiction and memory. Though photography tends toward sharp realism, I work against that instinct — pushing instead toward compositions that are suggestive, interpretive, and atmospheric. Half Light draws attention to structure over specificity — to impression rather than particular. This is my ongoing desire: not to describe, but to evoke.