Seeing, for me, has never been only visual. It is a way of sensing, questioning, and entering into relationship with what is in front of us — a person, a landscape, a system, a possibility...
I began with light. My BA in Photography at the University of East London (2013) was rooted in the conviction that light and colour are not decoration — they are a language shared by art and science, by the eye and the mind, by the visible and everything just beneath it.
Then I began asking harder questions. At SOAS University of London, I turned to the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation (MA, 2019), looking for the common denominator of art and contemplative practice. What I found was this: the experience of deep attention in art - the state a viewer enters in front of a painting, or a photographer enters behind the lens - and the experience of meditation are not so different. Both are methods to go beyond the mind. Both are paths toward a quality of presence that cannot be named, only inhabited. My dissertation argued this with neuroscience and philosophy. But the truth of it I knew already - through the work itself.
At their deepest, art and meditation are the same practice - a path beyond the mind.
These two threads - the language of light, and the practice of transcendence - have never really separated. They run through everything I make now: the photographs, the research, the ecosystem I am building.
I am the creator of the Garden of the New Earth — an interconnected set of cultural, ecological, educational, and social projects rooted in one conviction: that the way we live can be more conscious, more holistic, more ecological, more beautiful — and more fully alive.
The Garden includes the Alive Intelligence Movement, the Heart Market, the School of Living Light, and more — each one a different expression of the same underlying question: what does it look like when people live fully? Some are already taking shape. Others are still being seeded.
I work across photography, research, writing, and design — in a studio, structured as a regenerative business. This means the work is designed to feed the conditions it depends on: culture, community, and the living world. Not extraction. Only contribution.
If something here resonates — a project, a question, a direction — I would love to hear from you. This work grows through encounter.