Refusing Containment (2025)

This body of work emerges from an extended practice of experimenting with water, wind, and light - returning to oceans, lakes, and fields across days and seasons to study how their movements might be coaxed into unexpected forms. By working with panoramic imaging technology, l manipulate the pace and angle of capture in relation to these natural rhythms, producing images that fracture into feathered cascades, pinwheels, or layered diagonals of color.

The process is both experimental and devotional: a sustained attunement to elemental vitality, and to the unseen animacies that surface through sustained looking and making. What results are not seamless landscapes, but collaborations between author, element, and algorithm — images where motion refuses capture and matter insists on its own life.

Drawing from glitch feminism and a queer embrace of error, the work reimagines technological failure as a generative opening. It asks what becomes possible when mistakes are amplified rather than erased, and when both human and nonhuman forces are acknowledged as co-creators in the work of art.

All images were created strictly in-camera, with no edits or color-correction made whatsoever.