Cascadia Coast Exposures

2025

Cascadia Coast Exposures is a collection of unique handmade prints created on the Oregon Coast using historic and experimental photographic processes. These images are made with direct sunlight exposures, recording the shadows of collected marine specimens over light-sensitive chemistry. Rooted in observation, patience, and direct engagement with the environment, these prints function as visual field notes, recording fragments of life in the light of a specific time and place.

The physicality of this process—walking, diving, collecting, and arranging—is tactile and meditative. Most of the works document seaweeds collected while freediving or tidepooling, printed at life-size in direct contact with the light sensitive emulsions. Some incorporate photographs captured at different scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Layered together, these elements form composite portraits of marine biodiversity—an expanded view of place through multiple ways of seeing.

This work is the result of time spent immersed in Oregon’s coastal ecosystems and in dialogue with researchers at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. It reflects my deep interest in scientific collections and the power of specimens to serve as anchors for memory and meaning. I’m interested in how artists and scientists alike collect, interpret, and share knowledge—and how those practices help us observe, understand, and feel connected to the world around us.

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