Songs of Lamentation
In this evolving body of work, Songs of Lamentation, the portraits of hundreds of souls have been captured from tombstones in graveyards across Europe.
In a circuitous process, each image has been transformed from the found photographic portrait through alternate layers of photography, projection, recaptured from the lens of a Camera Obscura, from there back to photography and finally to print.
The resulting images challenge a traditional idea of photography as a faithful record of reality, and instead explore the nature of perception and memory. They expose our fleeting corporeal existence on earth, the unimaginable magnitude of eternity and the inevitability of death and loss. The construction and merging of new layers results in mysterious dislocated images that somehow float one-step removed from the picture surface.
The camera is a tool for revelation. The essence of these images has been interrogated and excavated in search of the soul within.