Learning & Unlearning - The Erosion of Certitude

This project began as an exploration of time - an attempt to move away from the formal image, the sharply focused subject, the immediately recognizable. I sought to make photographs that carry an ambiguous, shifting sense of time.

In quantum physics, time exists only in relation to something else, a measure of change from one state of being to another.

What began as an investigation of time, with time as both subject and collaborator, became a window into a deeper understanding of my work and how it has unfolded and shifted over time.

Time has shown me that my work lives on the edge of the seen and the unseen. Through frames within frames, I invite the viewer to pause and ask:

What was there?
What is there?
Why is it no longer there?

Through these photographs, I aim to open a dialogue, to move beyond the clearly defined, and to reveal how each one of us fills-in what is not seen, in the in-between.

Seeing how perception is framed, how ambiguity is experienced, how the seen and unseen are interpreted, is what makes each one of us unique and guides our judgments, actions and responses.

By presenting a fragmented image, I encourage the observer to dwell in the space between. It is here that the nuances of the human condition emerge, moving us beyond Cartesian dualism toward a more fluid, integrated understanding of the world and its citizens.

We can never fully know another’s reality. Yet by lingering in the space between, perhaps we can begin to transform our own perceptions, and sense connection and resonance with our fellow kin.

It might look like nothing is happening, but in the end,

 time will show us that something is happening -

when we allow ourselves to live in the space between.[1]

[1] A modified quote inspired by Marie-Christine Simard.