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These abstract photographs of light move as viewers walk by, encouraging the slowing down of visual perception to mindfully engage viewers with the present moment.

Awards:

Luminous Visions received the Graduate Student Research Award sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and the Eugene M. Riley Prize in Photography from the University of Notre Dame in 2021.

Exhibitions:

This series has been exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame in 2021. Several of the prints have also been exhibited at Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, OH., for the group show Future Resonance that ran through 2022 and at The Martin, Chicago, IL., for the group show Different Names, Jan. 20 through Feb. 12, 2023

Purchase Details:

Purchase of a lenticular photograph includes pictured framing, artist’s signature and edition number in pen. There are two sizes available: 20 x 20” pieces are made in editions of 6 and 40 x 40” pieces are made in editions of 4.

About the work:

The photographs comprising Luminous Visions document ordinary and overlooked moments of natural light in interior spaces. The use of lenticular technology with the photographs engages visual perception to encourage a mindful state of observation as opposed to a logical state of interpretation. Immersion into the present moment through mindful observation burns away the mental fog of our day to day thoughts and emotions to reveal an ineffable realm of clarity. Luminous Visions draws us into the boundless unfolding of presence, a state of being that exists unburdened by our human impulse of interpretation and meaning.

The bond between photography and daily life invites us to recognize the simple presence of natural light appearing in our own everyday environments. At the same time, the ambiguous specificity of these lenticular photographs allows them to stand as original visual experiences in their own right. Being simultaneously referential and original, Luminous Visions suggests an expansion of Roland Barthes’ theory of the referent where he claimed a photograph can only be an invisible carrier of the depicted subject matter. By entwining art and life, the work not only offers a new way to engage with photographs but also with life itself.

View more documentation of Luminous Visions here.
Read about Luminous Visions in the press here.
Read the published thesis paper on this series here.