“This body of work begins with a simple tension: we live in a time where a single thumb-swipe can carry us from catastrophe to celebration. One moment, a feed fills with headlines of war, scarcity, and collapse; the next, it offers a new haircut, a child’s soccer victory, a glowing gallery opening. The emotional whiplash of these shifts is quiet but relentless, and it asks something of us: how do we hold all of it at once?
As I was creating this show, I kept circling one question: what does “light” look like when the heaviness of “dark” is everywhere Sometimes it appeared as color and symbol, -a bird lifting off, the curve of a feather, a plant form that feels inexplicably hopeful. Other times it arrived as weight: the heaviness of fear, the impulse to turn away, the [laces where I feel caught and unable to move forward. Light and dark were no longer opposites, but forces constantly negotiating space inside the same frame.
The works themselves become sites of that negotiation,: a road runner alongside its detached tail feather, a black raven facing its pale leucistic counterpart, a man with a raised pistol standing in a field of radiant sunflowers. Each image asks what it means for beauty and threat, tenderness and violence, to coexist so closely that they cannot be separated.
We carry this duality every day, often without naming it-in the headlines we absorb, the images we post, the small rituals that keep us going. My Hope is that this show briefly interrupts that scroll, offering just enough pause to notice where you stand inside it all. When the world feels dark, where are you finding your light?”
