Homing Instinct
I habitually take long walks that are as meandering as the coastal estuaries of my Massachusetts hometown marsh. I move slowly through the landscape, passing through field and forest to reveal an unending landscape opening up beyond me. My wonder tethers itself to the intangibility of the birds overhead.
Homing Instinct is an exploration of walking and the physicality of film photography as it mirrors a poetic and visceral connection to the land. An ephemerality lingers within the work—a longing to experience and hold on as larger forces cause land and home to change forms. The work holds space for lightness but also defies it through an ominous representation of the cycles of loss within nature. I am especially drawn to the birds that live between land and sky, between rooted experience and unmoored wonder. I have a yearning to understand what it is like to be a bird, and a simultaneous acceptance of knowing that I never will. There is both a separation and a closeness between us as I am repeatedly pulled back to the marsh.
