I don’t condemn the illusions people construct to buffer death anxiety. My interest is in what happens when those illusions collapse—whether creative practice can transform the raw terror of mortality into meaning, rather than violence or denial.

"In the Shadow of Sun Mountain: The Psychology of Othering and the Origins of Evil" is a poignant reflection on the historical and psychological dimensions of land ownership, colonization, and the human experience of mortality. ⁤

These photographs and paintings represent an esoteric conflict that’s rooted in our unconscious denial of death. That conflict is the psychological underpinning of the atrocities that happened on this land. I’ve connected these ideas through the content of the images and the materials and processes that I used to make the photographs and paintings. These ideas are represented both symbolically and literally.