that which we cannot ever expect to see is a series of poetic photomontages that consider photography's relationship to the universe. What does it mean to remember something seen yet never encountered with our bodies? How might we get closer to knowing the unknowable? With visible tears and folds, the images meditate on the impossible physical relationship to galactic bodies of unfathomable scale and at impossible distances, yet able to be held by the hand through the photographic object. Source material for the photographs and titles ranges from images and text collected from magazines, books, and other instructional or scientific texts. 

This impossibly intimate and hands-on relationship to the cosmos is underscored by printing the works in the black-and-white darkroom. Each piece begins with a physical arrangement of collected image material as collage, which is scanned on a flatbed scanner and then printed in the darkroom via a digital negative. This combination of analog and digital processes allows each collage to exist as a multiple, as well as enabling images to be re-used across other works. 

At its core, this series considers how looking towards the infinity of the cosmos might serve to close distance. Far apart though we may be, all of us still inhabit a single planet and, as such, exist under the same sky. We may be at the furthest points from our loved ones, but anyone looking upward at the night sky gazes upon the same moon. We gaze upon the same blue of the atmosphere at the same time as other bodies on earth, even if we stand alone. In the grand expanse of the universe, we are remarkably close.