I explore the intersections of art, science, and spirituality to find a visual language connecting us to universal energy. I use camera sensors to record the energetic fingerprint of our universe. Blinded to visible light, the sensor captures energy the human eye misses. 

We perceive only a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, equivalent to the length of your thumb compared to the width of the distance from Los Angeles to New York City. We believe this is reality because it’s what we see. I subvert the photographic tool that shows us the world as it “is” to reveal a visual texture woven from the energetic web that gives shape to the physical world that we don’t fully perceive. Thus each image has two subjects: the first is the recognizable subject such a figure, a shape, or a place described by the visible light that leaks into the exposure, and the second is the visual language whispered into the image by the energy soup described by both physics and mystics.

I call my work Metagraphs because they’re camera-based recordings of more energy than visible light alone. I abstract the image by rendering digital noise into a visual kaleidoscope of color and texture from the energetic soup we inhabit. This transforms the image into a hyper-vision showing aspects of reality we don’t see, metaphorically and literally.

I print on Japanese paper and mount to or photo transfer directly to prepared board canvas or silk with layers of hand-applied UV protective varnish to create a finished piece blurring the boundary of mediums and enhancing ambiguity.