Becloud

Becloud explores the complexity of how moments in time can be retrieved, re-imagined, and remixed.

During a month-long art residency in upstate New York, I explored spaces and structures situated in an area that became the birthplace of Spiritualism in the United States starting in the late 1840’s.

Locations such as Hydesville, where Kate and Maggie Fox claimed to have been able to communicate with the spirit world, and Lily Dale, a thriving community of mediums and freethinkers, are the focal points of my interest, leading me to explore an area heavy with a beautiful, yet confounding history.

Using a portable camera obscura, various pinhole cameras, scans of detritus, and layers of wax, I have created an amalgam of imagery and texture. Such aesthetic etherealities point to familiar moments and possible narratives, while harkening back to a mystifying and ambiguous past.