Works created as a 2025 - 2026 Annual Artist in Residence at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
Dust from the Devil’s Tongue was presented as part of a group exhibition of artworks in True F. Luck Gallery, State of Flux, curated by Monica Kinsey.
Dust from the Devil’s Tongue examines the interval between impulse and action, when internal
forces begin to change form. It approaches the subconscious as a structured space that
organizes perception, memory, and behavior.
The work engages two traditions of transformation: the descent into the underworld and the
alchemical stage of nigredo, the blackening phase in which decomposition precedes renewal.
Darkness is treated as a generative condition, an environment in which previous forms dissolve
so that new configurations can emerge. Disorientation and breakdown become necessary
stages in processes of reconfiguration and rebirth.
The project draws on a photographic archive accumulated over decades. Images are
recomposed through experimental and traditional darkroom techniques to construct landscapes
that merge discrete memories into continuous terrain. In this process, the darkroom functions as
a transitional chamber similar to the underworld, where fragments are reconfigured and
integrated into altered forms of perception. Otherworldly landscapes assume the familiar
strangeness of dreams, where psychic material is reshaped into unexpected insight.
Developed in response to a culture of constant visibility and excess information, the project
adopts a slower methodology that reduces external noise in order to examine what remains
internally active, asking what is essential and what can be released.