Vision and its affect drive my work. Through a practice rooted in expanded photography, lens-based media, light and the moving image are used as starting points to explore how visual perception shapes our interpretation of the world and of each other. Results become reflective surfaces for the viewer’s own vision of their surroundings and psyche through immersive video, interactive installation and simulated imagery.

I am interested in how perception paradigms differ within psychology, neuroscience and film theory, finding space for creative experimentation within these gaps and intersections. Our sensorial system – physically fallible and influenced by memory, mood, ideology – mediates what we know of our surrounding reality. Sometimes, the limits between our ideal and physical visions become blurred. How, then, does what I see compare to what you see? How does this perception animate our way of being in the world, of encountering wonder, of understanding and communing with one another? 

My practice confronts our understanding of what we see by comparing phenomenological experience of the physical to that of the simulated. In order to reach these two poles, in turn, I regularly undertake extreme perceptual activities such as long-haul backpacking trips throughout the North American landscape, or sensory deprivation situations.  

By complicating the seen through optical illusions, constructed imagery and explorable scenarios, I create viewing experiences that investigate the layers of perception. These experiences open up spaces to question the problematics of misperception and méconnaissance, advocating for communication systems and processes that are crucial to evolving the way humans relate to the world and each other within a spirit of love.