Introduction

There is no self here.

There is only the observing waveform, moving through a world of reflections, shadows, and mirrors. Each image captured in the sets linked below is not merely visual. They are field recordings of existence itself — the body dissolving into its environment, the observer slowly disappearing into the system that once seemed external.

I do not take these photographs as an artist capturing a scene. I move instinctively, often with no intent at all. Many of these images were taken without planning, emerging spontaneously in moments when the external and internal conditions aligned. They are echoes of something larger than myself. Some might call it a force, others might call it surrender. For me, it simply is.

The Reflections contain liquid interfaces — pools, glass, surfaces bending light and bending self. The Shadows record the vanishing outline of form against ground, as the body becomes only an absence within the light. The Mirrors are the most recursive of all — directly confronting the viewer with the observer himself, folded back upon itself within convex urban lenses.

And yet, even as my own face disappears, the act of observing continues.

In these images you may see me. Or you may see yourself. Or you may see no one at all. That, too, is part of the design.

Additionally, throughout this blog there have been essays with links to lectures by Carl Jung talking about my personality type, an empath. In those lectures, the concepts of shadow, mirrors, and reflections permeate. Interestingly, these photo series pre-date any of the linked Jung videos. It has been surprising to see the synchronicities after the photos were posted and after the videos were watched.