Imaginary Ecologies

Wandering through forests, I look for encounters with beings and materials that share the same ground we walk on. Woods, grasses, fungi, bones, stones – they have existed in dense, shifting relations long before human attention reached them.

Relating to these presences – and imagining their agency beyond categories of use or knowledge – is something we are in the process of forgetting, even as it becomes more urgently needed. In the context of ecological crisis, it becomes clear that our established ways of perceiving the environment no longer suffice. What is needed are other modes of attention – slower, more porous, more open to what resists naming.

My photographic practice draws on visual thinking and speculative aesthetics to approach these encounters not as representations, but as situations. The resulting images do not explain but invite – they open spaces for sensing more-than-human entanglements and for re-searching the mutual embeddedness of all that lives, decays, and transforms.