(2020) The term 'Spatial Primitives' refers to the often unconscious practice of building one's spatial reality around various attributes like specific locus, time and magnitude.

In March of 2020, as the world braced for an indeterminable period of isolation, I had just separated from my partner and was living alone for the first time in my life. Suddenly out of work and confined to my newly rented studio apartment, I found myself liberated to fully explore both my immediate surroundings and lifelong interest in the photographic process. In the following weeks, I embarked on a series of self portraits wherein I attempted to occupy the apartment as fully as possible.

By physically exploring every inhabitable space (from various closets to cupboards and the decommissioned icebox), I sought to assert ownership over my newfound territory while also uncovering the needs and limitations of my own body.

Informed by Gaston Bachelard's seminal work The Poetics of Space and Carl Jung's interpretation of the Temenos, these images seek to address the intersection of psychological and physical space-- and the possibilities of personal transformation that lie within.