Sometimes you can see an experience and its memory simultaneously, two layers of reality peeling apart. Frequently I seek to record this duality through my work. Images that capture something I saw in the real world but also the emotions and physical sensations I felt in that moment: awe, presence, maybe a feeling of bodily displacement. Often, it’s the skin prickle of frisson; sometimes from something eerie, sometimes from something that looks like nostalgia even before it’s been transformed into a golden figment. Memory and experience are blurred together, then repeated and reformed through scanning, editing, printing, and viewing. These images become a coded message. They are a way back to a sensory version of the past and a sounding board for meaning in the present.

Recall is a collection of images I made between summer 2022 and fall 2023. The time was like a waking dream, a return to being fully present in the world. I found myself drawn back to slower mediums, shooting medium format and 35mm, from folding rangefinders to pocket cameras. I went to places I have longed for and places I have loved for a long time — this series includes photos from as far away as New Zealand and as near as the Cascades backcountry. And although the images here were made in many places, through processing and repetition they belong to one time and place: memory.