The Initiate's Library (Aether)

The Initiate’s Library explores the nature of occult knowledge through still-life photography of books transformed into abstract, unreadable objects. By focusing on fore-edges, textures, pigments and material disruptions, the images present sacred texts as surfaces rather than sources of direct information. The books are visible but inaccessible, echoing the esoteric principle that knowledge exists everywhere but reveals itself only through readiness and initiation. The work stages a tension between concealment and availability, suggesting that spiritual knowledge cannot be consumed passively but must be embodied, enacted and earned. These images mark the threshold between curiosity and commitment, the point where information ends and initiation begins.

The Return (Air)

The Return is a long-duration photographic ritual created through the disciplined act of photographing the same patch of sky every morning over seven months. What appears visually repetitive is, in fact, a record of invisible change, both astrological and internal. Rooted in Hermetic and astrological principles, the work reflects the idea that planetary movements shape inner experience even when the sky appears unchanged. The repetition ritualises the camera as a devotional tool, revealing how spiritual labour unfolds quietly through consistency rather than spectacle. Some images were deliberately allowed to be technically substandard or visually uneventful, echoing the mundane reality of spiritual labour. Circular image formats gradually replace rectangular frames, symbolically reclaiming direct access to spiritual experience from systems that mediate or “crop” it. The work invites patience, mirroring the initiate’s path where breakthroughs emerge from sustained attention.

Stardust (Earth)

Stardust uses salt, a material associated with protection, purification and conductivity, to create photograms that resemble astronomical imagery. Produced in the darkroom, these images collapse cosmic scale into microscopic matter, evoking star fields while remaining resolutely earthly in origin. Inspired by holographic theories that link atomic and universal structures, the work situates the human body within a continuum between the smallest and largest measurable forms. Salt becomes a carrier of energetic memory, revealing matter as intelligent, charged and vibrational. Stardust visualises the Earth element as both dense and cosmological, suggesting that the infinite is already embedded within the ordinary.

The Water Dialogues (Water)

The Water Dialogues is a collaborative crystallography project developed through direct communication with the element of Water. Using spoken words, intention and intuitive dialogue, water was frozen and photographed at the moment of crystallisation, capturing fleeting structures before they dissolved. Each session treated Water as an active collaborator, a medium, messenger and holder of memory. The resulting images reveal complex crystalline forms suggestive of symbols, archetypes and portals, aligning with traditions of hydromancy, divination and elemental communication. Embracing impermanence and surrender to timing, the project positions Water as both witness and collaborator, revealing how subtle forces can momentarily take form before returning to flux.

*40 separate encounters were recorded with Water, the final images will be curated into a circular oracle card deck and can be used as a meditation tool.

Microcosm (Fire)

Microcosm investigates the body as a holographic carrier of consciousness, working primarily with blood but also incorporating other bodily materials that quietly register life, time and presence, bridging scientific process with mystical and occult understanding. Using laboratory techniques, these substances were transformed into small, circular images reminiscent of sacred geometry and microcosmic worlds. Associated with Fire and life force, blood is presented as a site where body, consciousness and cosmos converge. Drawing on holographic theory, the work suggests that each fragment contains information about the whole. The intimate scale of the images encourages close viewing, positioning perception itself as a ritual act. Microcosm frames the body not as a vessel for spirit, but as an active, intelligent field of spiritual information.