X-rays are often explored through glimpses alongside a doctor’s cursory examination.  Viewed through the filter of personal vulnerability and anxiety, a distorted memory developed of what should have been a precise photographic image.

At the heart, lies a paradox of the human condition: the unrelenting exposure of physical frailty against the raw emotions and psychological tenacity that the x-rays induce but can never tangibly reveal.  This is where “Wavelengths of Light” begins.

By recording the condition of one’s physical being with precision, the films expose solely corporal issues, which the mind must then contemplate and reconcile, revealing the peripheral relationship of the physical self to the emotional self. Coupling the photographic concern for light with the X-ray’s revelation of the body’s condition through light,  “Wavelengths of Light” presents a literal and figurative illumination of the body.  This series utilizes the ephemeral nature of the X-ray film to explore the ethereal nature of its imagery.  Each piece resists and transforms the medical field’s purely diagnostic use of these films to create works that reveal psychological elements the X-rays themselves cannot.  These are portraits stripped of flesh, leaving only echoes of the actual physical person yet revealing a tangible understanding of the psyche.