Dark Room2025
darkroom photogram series


Dark Room uses a standard photo enlarger light in a darkroom. However, I shine the enlarger’s light directly onto a mylar balloon, which immediately reflects the light beam in many unpredictable directions, essentially “polluting” the darkroom’s darkness with light. With my arm outstretched, I hold a sheet of photosensitive paper out, trying to catch the light beams where I suspect they may shine. I think of this as a way of visualizing the abstraction that is pollution through an interdisciplinary combination of photography and performance.