Chaos Project

(2005–2012)

In-camera multiple exposures on 35mm film. After exposing a single image onto each frame, I roll the film back into the canister, reload it into the camera, and expose a new round of images over the same film.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a head with plants growing horizonally out of one side.

Chance, experimentation, and play are my guides. I don’t track the individual images I’ve taken, or try to plan ahead for harmonious compositions. The results are always random but sometimes appear eerily purposeful. Many images are discarded from each roll, but some take on a life of their own.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a person's body embedded within an ancient Mexican stone wall.

My role is both creator and spectator, scientist and subject, magician and archaeologist. I will the images into existence, then search them for treasure. To me they illustrate the chaos of life—The many seemingly unrelated experiences we encounter on our journeys through life, which layer one on top of the other in our memory, to create the rich tapestry that we call our “self.”

Black and white multiple exposure image of two arms and hands extending out of the earth and delicately holding a flower.

This project explores deeper beyond the “Dislocation” project, into feelings of alienation and disconnection from the environment and my own body. Using camera and film, I experiment with separating my body from its environment, and then allow them to find each other again organically, but within a set of boundaries that I control.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a face with three eyeballs.

Black and white multiple exposure image of textured sparkling water with two arms reaching into the water.

Black and white multiple exposure image showing a closeup of the top half of a face, with superimposed lettering that reads, 'But there seemed no other way, so I shot him down'.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a hand reaching out to push on an old wooden door.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a face with closed eyes poking through a large fibrous shape that extends horizontally across the image.

Black and white multiple exposure image of sunset over a melting lake. At the bottom of the lake in the dark water is the back side of a head, with long hair floating upward.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a woman floating on top of textured tree bark.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a head and torso overlaid and partially obscured by the texture of water ripples.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a floating torso protruding from a large deeply shadowed leaf.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a rock wall topped with a face looking downward into the stones.

Black and white multiple exposure image of two large tree trunks and twisting branches facing each other. In the center of the image, connecting the trees together, is a headless torso with arms.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a blurred figure in movement looking upward. In the background are dark, leafless hanging willow branches.

Black and white multiple exposure image of a blurred figure crawling on hands an knees.