DISQUIET
"Disquiet" combines my photographic works printed on traditional Japanese papers with a pair of enigmatic safety-pin sculptures by Tamiko Kawata.
We discovered that between us, layers of memory, loss, and history intersected across cultures and time.
My works in "Disquiet" include Alaskan glaciers scarred with carbon fallout.. A collapsing barn. Desiccated flowers, fragmented nudes, walls pockmarked with bullet holes. And haunting vernacular Japanese glass negatives from the 1930s, reworked, and printed on traditional Japanese kozo paper, some tinted with kakishibu dye and tinted with indigo..
"Disquiet" was first exhibited at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York from October 2022-January 2023.
"Many photographs in this exhibit feature troubling topics; carbon-damaged glaciers, a gun-toting young woman, numerous bullet holes sprayed across a firing range wall. But be still with the works. Linger in the raw cement warehouse where they are housed. And a more complex message emerges: the create art in these disquieting times is a defiant act of hope. Viewing the black and white phots and Kawata's safety-pin sculptures through this lens makes their shapes and shadows take on a daring beauty all their own" - Evantheia Schibsted, Shelter
"Disquiet" will be exhibited again at Hangar 7826 Gallery in Montreal in 2026.