We know what a photograph has been, but what fascinates me more is in what ways it will continue to evolve and expand. There is something special about a tangible photographic object and there is also something magical about a photograph existing in the ether of non-materiality.

The digital sphere is a space for the borders between mediums to blur or in some cases dissolve altogether. With this in mind, I am interested in pursuing and exploring the purely non-material, ephemeral nature that the digital sphere offers for photography. Below is an example of such an exploration. GIF’s are a common digital file format, a format that has provided some of the finest, most hilarious memes I’ve ever seen. While I enjoy my fair share of good memes, I believe the GIF is also capable of serving as a magnificent force for the evolution of digital photography. It allows the concrete photograph to loosen, allowing it to move and breathe with other images. It is a mode of movement that is familiar (think of flip books) yet in a digital form it does something different. It is a format that is fairly easy to create with and even easier to share.

Ultimately, what draws me towards the digital sphere is its ephemerality, its inherently ungraspable nature. I feel more at home in the qualities of ephemerality and ineffability than a do in our traditional reality of form and logic. It was the near death experience that happened when I was 21 that radically transformed my life forever, yet no words could ever explain it in full. The light that came to me when I was in the void felt like home itself, and I was ready to be embraced by it. But instead of embracing me, it brought me back to life. Now, my core focus for the remainder of my life is to honor that light, to remember it, to share it. It is a light not only seen with the eyes but felt with the heart. While my art practice is seen as photographic in nature, it is more so a way of being.