Camera Obscura, 2024

Terra, glaze, acrylic, engraving

Here, the artist highlights the ambiguous role of photography as an agent in the disruptive projects of colonialism, as well as its service in maintaining personal, familial and communal history and memory. The black glazing references the camera obscura - a dark chamber that functioned as the first camera. Objects on the pedestal resemble daguerreotype and ambrotype cases. Inside, the images take the form of silhouettes, another early process of self-imaging, which are also derived from works in the artist's oeuvre, generating an echo of creative production.