KRIΣ / return to surrender

To contemplate connection to source is to contemplate impermanence; a sense of longing for coexistence with nature, to return to an authentic home, to solace and peace. With a nocturnal theme, this is an ongoing exploration of metaphors of transience, and circularity of nature. Throughout the passages between new and full moon, dusk and dawn, I spent entire nights sheltered by an ancient olive grove in my father’s homeland Crete, Greece. I gathered light through singular night-long exposures and compressed time into the two-dimensional frame. The advent of the morning light acts as an agent of exposition and interruption. Through the nightly ritual the body in the cocoon dissolves and re-materializes, all while the ancient grove remains fixed. The work is an inquiry into understanding ‘self as nature’, with the earth as the source. Painting with light, time, and space merges, rendering luminous, mysterious palettes that evoke the ambiguity of the physical and the subliminal.