My photography is a set of practices which provide opportunities for introspective reflection and inquiry. Photography affords me a safe holding space in which to lean into vulnerability to explore my own embodied knowing and to make meaningful strides into my not-yet-embodied emerging future. In other words, it is the vehicle on a journey into Being. The deeper and more intentionally I attend to nature, the deeper I sense my own presence, my ecological Self.
By nurturing an ecological Self, we cross a threshold from egoistic and anthropocentric motivations focused on individual well-being to ecological wholeness in health and community. My interests lie in the narratives and stories that occur at this threshold between the ego-system and the eco-system approaches, a liminal landscape of consciousness and co-generative transformative change. It is a landscape where we learn to listen deeply to ‘other’, where curiosity brings courage and where we discover the ability to hold multiple truths at once; where we learn to ‘see ecologically’.
The greatest lesson I have learned and continue to re-learn is the importance of slowing down. By having times of stillness and reducing sensory overload, we expand our sense-abilities, letting go of attachments and expectations. Instead, we have space to practise seeing what arises. Only this way are we able to step back to get a better awareness of the bigger picture and of our ecological Selves.
My passion is to help inspire this transformation in others, to encourage a growth in self-awareness and mindfulness through photographic practices, and to motivate people to nurture curiosity and wonder with intention.