Dancing with my shadows series from The Crypt Gallery. This photographic series was created using pinhole cameras (in this case a coffee tin) and chemigram processes using light as a drawing tool. These slow, analogue methods embrace chance, materiality, and imperfection. Using camera less processes transforms a familiar space into something uncertain and dreamlike, where time feels suspended and place becomes fragile. In contrast to digitally perfected imagery, the photographs celebrate vulnerability and erosion as ways of seeing, while quietly recording my presence within the space. Control and accident merge. I experienced the space as a metaphor for a female organ, protective and cocooning, yet limiting access to light and the outside world, reflecting the act of mothering. The work invites slower, more attentive engagement with how environments shape our emotional states. All these series were produced in situ, allowing the temperature, humidity and light quality affects the silver gelatine paper in a unique way. The artist also developed the work in an improvised darkroom inside The Crypt.
