Zero at the Bone, 2015 -2019

Confronting a primal creature tightens the breath. This sensation is referred to as zero at the bone. Emily Dickinson wrote of this, alluding to it as both a danger within nature and an encounter with nothingness. These pictures of nocturnal animals, made in the Florida Everglades, trade in the world of feeling, symbolism, and the haptic: Moons hover in blackness, sky and water merge. The roles of predator and prey entangle, dissolving into one another; glinting eyes stare back. Here, the darkness, co-occupied by highly adaptive animals, is felt in its fullness: as the beguiling, the bottomless, the forbidding, the sublime.