Bodies of Light is created from photographs I took of Tori Amos during the In Times Of Dragons tour. The series is made through an experimental process of light, movement, and long exposure.

These photographs are my attempt to give form to the mystery of artistic inspiration, the muses, and the unseen presences Tori Amos has long described as moving through her music and performances—presences I experience in my mind's eye through her work and am drawn to make visible.

For more than thirty years, Tori Amos's music has been a profound creative influence in my life. Her work has accompanied me through my artistic practice and through periods when I wasn't sure I would make it to the life I have today. For me, both her music and her performances are places where the visible and invisible briefly meet.

These images also come from my lifelong intuitive way of perceiving. Since childhood, I have experienced what some call auras: color and energy that extends beyond the visible body. The photographs are not intended as literal documentation of these phenomena, but as my attempts to give visual form to the way that I perceive.

I approach each photograph without a predetermined outcome, working in-camera with light, movement, and duration. I invite whatever wants to emerge to come forward. The process becomes a form of photographic scrying: an intuitive search for what might reveal itself when likeness begins to loosen and the visible body becomes a threshold.

Through this process, the images move further from documentation and closer to the experience I am trying to hold: the feeling that, through her music and performances, she seems to give form to something larger than herself.

Selected works from an ongoing series.
New works are shared on Instagram as the series develops.