'I am an artist who predominantly specializes in photography but I rarely find myself using a camera. Within the vast field of photography, I am fascinated by the traditional science of the craft, the simplicity of the process. What is a camera but a box of light? I find myself inside this box of light that represents a camera rather than outside. I much of my work, i have take the basics functions of photography and use my body [to imitate] as the camera apparatus. I did not arrive at this process by accident. I slowly deconstructed the elements of photography over the years. I began by taking the lens of a 5x4 camera and replacing it with a piece of aluminium foil with a minute pinhole. I was astounded by the effect of long exposure times and the simplicity. I went on to living in a giant camera obscura watching the world upside-down pass in constant movement across my ceiling. The exterior, interior. As my experimentations broadened I devised processes to make images using the inside and outside of my body merging exterior with interior landscapes. I became the human camera.

 

I use this working methodology of using my body as the camera, as the foundation to my practice producing work that is crafted from a female perspective. My past work has taken a shift from the issue of how the body should be represented to embodiment and what it means to inhabit the body. So in a sense, I have explored the surface of things and I am now reaching to what animates the surface life.

 

The essence of my work is nothing less than the need to define the life within the form. That place of life. I use my body in attempt to lift invisible aspects of a life into the visible world. My interests lie not in simply recording or observing, I am reaching to get beneath the surface to record the unseen essence of life and in doing so, a full realization of the self. In my current practice I have reached a new level in my work where I have found a way to get inside myself through ritualistic processes and endurance – and then bring something {a residue} from these experiences/processes that I create.

 

This work is created under the influence of the history of photography, representation, endurance, spirituality, ritual, embodiment, and universal life force energy.'

 

NEW WORK In my most recent work 'Sentient Beings, Sentient Places' 2007 - I have actually gone digital. Combining my passion of photography and travel - I ressolved to using a camera with a lens to capture and document all pheneomena that caught sight of my vision. Please see links in menu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selfportrait 'Past,present,future'1999