My fictional and fragmented images, made from camera-less chemigrams and collaged snippets from my own photographs, attempt to slice through history, space, galaxies, and reconfigure our understanding of our position in the world as both precarious and hopeful. This ancient rock on which we reside offers a context for reveling in uncertainty and peering into the vastness of incomprehensible things. I am a skeptic but I search for the sacred, somehow attached to the ancient and adjacent to the wisdom of the natural world. The rocks, skies, caverns, and stars offer limitless possibility for wandering among the unknown and clasping the occasional slippery fragment of sacred, ancient knowledge. How will we retain fragile hope in a world spinning an orbit of waste and confusion? How do we navigate the unknown with respect and care instead of destruction? These images explore the precarity and insignificance of our existence while promoting the spirit of our imaginations and insistent hope.

“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince