Our Narratives
Encounters
A space dedicated to the quiet, unhurried experience of truly looking at something: the patience it takes, the unexpected connection that follows, the way a work of art can open a world that usually unfolds beyond our awareness.
What Returns: The Cycle of Life
Long before roads were cut through the landscape and rivers appeared on maps, the forests of the Olympic Peninsula were already alive. For the Coast Salish, Klallam, and Quinault peoples, forest, river, and wildlife have never existed as separate realms...
Into the Wild
I came to photography quite by accident. In 2010 I took a year's sabbatical to travel and volunteer solo around the world. A conservation and photography project in South Africa was the catalyst that woke up the artist in me. I returned home with a camera and a completely different way of seeing...
Beigua Natural Park, Studies on a Liminal Condition
The park sits in the heart of Liguria, suspended between the sea and the Alps. It is a place where an ancient ocean floor has become mountain, and where beech forests grow over ophiolite rock that was once the crust of a vanished sea. It is a landscape of deep transformation, though this transformation is so slow...
Through One Eye
The dust arrived without warning. Three days before Kévin Pagès would reach the crater, he and three friends were crossing Mælifellsandur, a vast plain of black volcanic sand in Iceland's central highlands, so stripped of colour it has often been compared to another planet. The storm that caught them there was total...
Eyes in the Deep
On a night dive off Mohéli in the Comoros archipelago, Pavlos Evangelidis descended into water where human vision becomes almost useless. His light found a squid suspended in the dark, body semi-transparent, chromatophores scattered across the mantle like a map of something internal, a teal stripe running its length...
Above the Cloudline
From Hardman Ridge on Guanyin Mountain, I watched the ultra-low advection fog arrive with the force of a weather event. It was not drifting, but surging, covering Taipei Port completely and pushing inland along the Tamsui River in waves...
When Light Finds Its Own Way Out
There is a moment, standing inside the ALHERD installation at Super Playground, Superstudio, when the category of lamp stops being useful.
The objects range from table scale to columns that reach well above head height, and a pendant suspended horizontally from a red cable overhead...
Motherhood
I have spent two years trying to get aerial photographs of dolphins that meet my standards. Two years of early mornings, dead ends, and days when the ocean offers nothing but its indifference. For this series, I flew from Montauk to Southampton over four days...
Before the Work Knew What It Was
There is a particular kind of attention that comes from having watched a work grow. Jiyong Lee, Professor of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University, served on Nancy Yu's thesis committee — which means he encountered Crowns of Glass not as a stranger walking into a gallery, but as someone who had...
Where Light Meets Wings
Each year, from late January to early February, Great Egrets gather at Kraft Azalea Garden in Central Florida, marking the beginning of their breeding season. Their timely return always fills me with excitement—it means I once again have the opportunity to capture fleeting, poetic moments in nature...