Theophany

This body of work emerges from my experience of recovery from addiction, and an ongoing attempt to understand spirituality through lived experience. Central to the project is the idea of theophany, a moment in which the divine becomes perceptible, approached not as certainty, but as a question. The images are rooted in ordinary spaces and objects, yet are shaped through processes that disrupt their stability. Long exposures accumulate time into a single frame, while expired film introduces unpredictability and decay. Camera-less works, made by exposing photographic paper directly to light, remove the camera entirely, allowing the image to form through contact rather than observation. These methods parallel an internal process: a movement through doubt, repetition, and gradual change. The work does not attempt to illustrate belief but instead reflects a search, an effort to locate something beyond the visible within the conditions of everyday life.