Spatial relationships generated by the natural landscape have long served as inspiration to artists working in a variety of disciplines. Photographers have turned to landscape not only in contemplation of the spiritual and sublime, but as a means of exploring the complexity of our relationship with nature and our place in the cosmos.
Plato was convinced that geometry was the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe. Galileo wrote "Nature's great book is written in mathematical language”, a notion embraced by many contemporary physicists. These ideas form the conceptual basis of my images.
Cosmologists claim that most of the content of the universe is undetectable. If there is more to our reality than what can currently be observed, described, and measured, how might imagery imply this expanded awareness of reality? As a photographic artist, merely presenting what can emit or absorb light has its obvious limitations. Could mathematics allow us to “see” what has never been seen before? Is the universe only mathematically comprehensible?
No other medium renders perceptible reality more accurately than photography, yet a photograph is merely a two-dimensional representation of light reflected from three-dimensional space. These photographs are an invitation to delve into questions about what we see, how we know, and probe the intersections of what is - and what if.
