Yesterday, My Shadow Scared Me examines the innate physical and material nature of darkroom photography and the moments of excitement in this process. The essential nature of light is explored as an ingredient in the photography development process and a tool that can be harnessed at each stage of making. In the darkroom, the amount of light used directly influences what we can see. There is something dramatic about dodging an area of a photograph and finding a character waiting in the shadows, and something unexpected about changing the angle of light to distort a shadow form.

The repetition and accumulation that is realized when a photograph emerges from darkness is essential to the series. In this way, certain forms are echoed within and between images, and the series becomes more frantic as it is actualized in light.

The very medium of the collection becomes the foundation of the exhibition concept.