The photographs in Infinite Metamorphosis were inspired, in part, by the trunk of a 200 million-year-old petrified tree I came across in Arizona’s Painted Desert. The vast expanse of time it represents stirred my reverence for the natural world and the relentlessness of geological change. The project invites the viewers to see the natural world not just as a place we inhabit, but as a source of inspiration, mystery and ongoing transformation that we unconsciously witness in the everyday. In photographing such varied subjects such as a fossil, a horse, a meteorite, a plant, and an ancient lake bed…how are these myriad subjects connected as the universe that has evolved over time? What stories do they tell?

The work is an invitation to see the natural world not just as a place we inhabit but as a source of inspiration, mystery and transformation. I believe that thinking about the past also means thinking about the present and the future. What if seeing an ancient heron track can remind us that extinct dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds. Or how a lake that flourished 20,000 years ago has become simply just a dry bed of salt crystals. And when we catch the earth reflected in a horse’s eye, what if we’re also seeing a place once filled with its ancestors—now vanished. My intention with this body of work is to create a sense of discovery. I wish to evoke for the viewer those connections that exist between geology and life on Earth, and by extension our place in the universe. Maybe we can imagine or be in awe of what transformations will take place in the future, say, one million years from now?

Infinite Metamorphosis