Held by Shadows
Cyanotype on 270gsm Paper, Various sizes
2025 - ongoing
In the Company of Invisibles
Cyanotype on 270gsm Paper, Various sizes
2025 - ongoing
The Beginning of Everything
Cyanotypes on paper pulp
2024
Shown in 'Undefined' at Turf Projects, June 2024
This body of work uses cyanotype to explore how light interacts with material, form, and the unseen. Working with hand-coated papers, salvaged projector lenses, and cast paper pulp, I investigate how subtle traces—shadows, refractions, and imprints—become vessels for meaning beyond their physical source. The process is a collaboration with light itself: part intentional, part unknowable, revealing structures that cannot be fully predicted or controlled.
Across projects such as Held by Shadows and In the Company of Invisibles, refracted light is bent through old projector lenses, forming quiet, almost astrological patterns at the centre of each work. These forms sit between science and intuition, where geometry emerges through chance rather than instruction. Cyanotype’s distinctive Prussian blue becomes a site of suspension, allowing light to leave behind a residue of its passing—a record of presence rather than description.
Sacred geometry informs the foundations of this practice, not through literal symbols, but through an attentiveness to underlying systems of order, pattern, and interconnectedness. The way light scatters or settles across the surface mirrors these hidden structures, echoing the quiet rhythms that shape both the natural world and inner experience.
In works such as The Start of Everything, themes of origin and emergence come to the foreground, while other pieces lean toward fragmentation, absence, and the dissolving of boundaries. Shadows, captured through direct exposure, function as a form of immutable knowledge—evidence of something once there, held through presence alone.
Together, these cyanotypes invite slow looking. They draw attention to faint edges and transitional states, reflecting on how memory, like light, is refracted by time, and how the invisible quietly guides what we see.