Flutter
Flutter is my new photographic series and artist book, featuring photographs of mountain landscape from various sites. Approaching the subject matter with an emphasis on form, composition and textures, the work is a suggestion towards a feeling and emotion rather than a specific place.
The title Flutter draws inspiration from watching nature documentaries and learning of birds fluttering their wings in symbolic gestures to communicate with one another. After the death of my mother in 2023, and the overwhelming emotions I experienced in grief, the work I created in 2019 began to take on a new resonance. The emotional turbulence I experienced during that time mirrored the organic forms of nature I had captured— the low frequency vibrations of the landscape expressed through the natural grain of 35mm film, unsettling yet beautiful. Perched on the hiking trail, sensing the Bay Area’s volatile climate, feeling its transient power, like the flutter of a small bird’s wings in the wind.
