I am a visual artist working across filmmaking, photography, and alternative photographic processes. My journey to wet cyanotypes emerged naturally, offering a medium that embodies the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi - finding profound beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and the marks left by time's passage.

Living alongside an elderly woman as she gradually lost her sight, I discovered how wabi-sabi manifests in human experience. As her vision dimmed, the plants she once nurtured continued their secret lives—much like I did, existing in a world where I often felt unseen. The garden became our shared sanctuary of invisible lives, hers fading into darkness while mine bloomed unseen. In this space, we both embodied wabi-sabi's embrace of life's inherent asymmetry and gentle decay.

In my wet cyanotypes, this philosophy emerges through ethereal signatures—ghost-like impressions transcending physical decay. Each irregular mark, unexpected bloom, and gentle imperfection becomes a celebration of wabi-sabi's core truth: that beauty lies not in perfection, but in the honest expression of time's touch. Unlike my previous work in film and photography seeking to capture precise moments, these prints embrace incompleteness and continuous change. Water, the alchemical medium of transformation, carries the weight of our shared solitude, dissolving boundaries between plant and paper, between her dimming outer world and my concealed inner one.

Each piece invites viewers to witness the beauty of hidden worlds and the poetry of solitary blooming, finding grace in what is modest, rustic, and intimately imperfect. Through wabi-sabi's lens, both the elderly woman's fading sight and my own feelings of invisibility become not imperfections to be corrected, but profound expressions of life's transient nature—each carrying its own quiet dignity and beauty.