In the sway of an olive tree explores the quiet endurance and conflict of holding on to fragments of memory, language, and heritage. Layering these images, memory is fractured yet enduring: a record of survival that bends to the storm, but refuses to be uprooted.
In the sway of an olive tree
Work in progress (2023–26) | Edition 1 of 32, plus 2 AP | Printed on cotton-rag archival paperLarge works: 30 × 40 in | Polaroid-format groupings: 4.2 × 3.5 in
Installation view ︎︎︎
Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope ?
~ Jack Gilbert
And Fallen, falling
Edition of 1 of 12, +1AP. 13 x 18 cm
Archival Inkjet print on Cotton Rag paper. 2022
Archival Inkjet print on Cotton Rag paper. 2022
Born of impermanence, a truth etched by fleeting moments, this work salvages discarded photographic negatives to reinvent lives that were and could have been. A dialogue echoes what once was. Layered imagery explores temporal fluidity and spectral presence.
Echoing T.S. Eliot, the work reflects on a landscape imprinted in the present, of some past, lapsed.
Echoing T.S. Eliot, the work reflects on a landscape imprinted in the present, of some past, lapsed.
~"I am here
Or there, or elsewhere.
In my beginning."
Of Some Past, Lapsed
Ed 1 of 12, plus AP 1 | 49 × 57 cm | Printed on Hahnemühle Torchon Paper | 2019–20
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
~ Frank O’Hara
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
~ Frank O’Hara
Tread on the Waiting Peel
Edition 1 of 10 plus 1 AP1. 12.7 cm × 17.8 cmprinted on cotton rag paper. 2023
‘With a sensitivity to the stories that linger between the twilight and the shadow, the real and imagined, between what is know and what is sensed, we ventured out to see the world afresh and to discover what would be earth.’
You Would Be Earth
Meral Güler & Dan Porter First winners of the Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award. Including Special Edition of 10 | 2 signed archival prints.Printed 2016.