Artist’s statement
As daylight fades, the world grows darker and familiar things lose their color and definition. I use this transition to introduce a bright light into the landscape. The light creates a separation within the scene, but it also awakens a desire to see what lies beyond it.
A light can make an object visible while concealing its own source and everything behind it. When it becomes too bright to look into, illumination itself becomes a barrier. I am interested in this paradox: something can be hidden by brightness as much as by darkness. It reflects a movement of human desire toward what remains unknown or out of reach.
I usually make these photographs at the threshold between day and night. As daylight disappears, the forms it has made familiar are altered or concealed. What becomes harder to see can also become more open to imagination.
Light gives objects recognizable shapes and meanings. Darkness loosens those definitions and allows other possibilities to emerge. In this work, I explore how illumination can both reveal and fix our understanding of the world, and how the unseen continues to shape what we desire.
