'I am an artist who predominantly specializes in photography. 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've found myself inside this box of light that represents a camera rather than outside. In some of my work, I have taken the basics functions of photography and used 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. I went on to living in a giant camera obscura watching the world upside-down pass in constant flux 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 becoming the human camera.

I used this working methodology 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 and record that unseen essence of life.

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

The works

Work from 2001 - 2006 features a portfolio of pinhole based work.

In my most recent works, 'The Sacred Sur Real - 2008', 'Sentient Beings, Sentient Places - 2007' - and 'Determination  - 2006', I have ressolved to using digital photography. Combining my passion of photography and travel - I ressolved to using a camera with a lens to capture and document fleeting pheneomena as pinhole techniques are not easily portable.

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Selfportrait 'Past,present,future'1999