Of Darkness and Light

Of Darkness and Light explores the fragile threshold where illumination reveals rather than conquers darkness. Working almost exclusively in low light, these photographs reject the expectation that photography should expose everything. Instead, they embrace obscurity as a space of contemplation, allowing light to function as a sculptural force that isolates moments of beauty, transience, and mortality. The images move fluidly between cultivated landscapes, wild growth, and inevitable decay. Greenhouses and half-submerged pipes become monuments to human attempts to control or shape nature, now slowly being reclaimed by shadow. Wildflowers, a solitary fern, and vibrant shoreline brush emerge briefly from the darkness, their brilliance entirely dependent upon the void that surrounds them. A decaying fish and a lone cattail standing over murky waters become meditations on impermanence, where transition is transformed through texture and light into something unexpectedly reverent. Rather than documenting places or objects, these photographs ask viewers to slow down and inhabit uncertainty. Darkness conceals as much as it reveals, inviting reflection on the cycles of growth, loss, and renewal that connect every living thing. The work suggests that light derives its meaning not from overpowering darkness, but from existing in dialogue with it.