THE NAVEL OF THE DREAM
The Navel of the Dream describes a state of groundlessness. In this body of work, photographs act as thresholds between what is seen and what is felt, between daydreams and nightmares, and between memories and myths. Light, in these images, illuminates the boundaries of what is known. Uncanny moments of connection begin to construct a new mythology, the building blocks of a space upended by loss.
What happens after a rupture? What is remade and what is undone? Where does the dust settle? Everything is different now and I am searching for a place to stand. In these images I am reenacting the mythos of my childhood and activating the deep waters of my subconscious.
In When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams describes myth-making as “the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths”. These images are at once myth-making and truth-seeking. I attempt to define and locate myself within their periphery. As I make the image, the image in turn makes me.
This series documents my shifting relationship to notions of homeland, identity and transformation. They were made in Southern Sweden, and New England between 2023 and 2025.
