For years my project’s concepts spoke through the metaphor of landscape photographs of places where energy can’t be seen, such as vortexes and sacred spiritual locations. As I’ve continued to work through my practice, and especially after having two children and transforming into a mother, I’ve been working through my own life’s traumas and have realized that the root of my interest is still in the invisible. Specifically, the invisibility of the subconscious and ideas around psychology, and particularly Carl Jungs philosophies. This opening in my practice has led me to my current work around the Jungian idea of “the Shadow”, the unconscious aspect of the personality.
Using physical layers for sculptural dimension changes the experience of viewing a photographic image to get closer at what I’m interested in, which is a feeling that taps into the viewer's unconscious (or Shadow), or that unknown feeling that lies beneath the surface of our understanding. In this body of work, I layer images offset from each other on Plexiglas over inkjet prints to represent the idea of a shadow self. The layering of Plexiglas over inkjet prints creates a slight physical and visual distance from the two or three images, representing the shadow or hidden part of oneself. Not only does the distance create an actual shadow, it is a literal repetition of the original image, suggesting the layering and complicated make up of ourselves.
