Cypher is an ongoing project that bridges my backgrounds in photography and dance, and takes its title from the term given to improvisational dance circles formed in clubs and other gatherings. All images, including text, are printed on gelatin silver.

Beginning with long-exposure photographs, each print is used in the darkroom to create its next iteration where I perform gestures over the print and unexposed photopaper. 

Echoing the freestyle exchanges of the cypher, the unpredictable compositions inform my movements in a process that turns the darkroom itself into a performance space. Through successive transformations, each piece moves from documentation towards abstraction. Bodies dissolve into essence, presence becomes absence, form becomes spirit.

The series reframes photography not as frozen moments, but as accumulated energy in a phenomenological exploration of movement, embodiment, and communion — an ongoing dance across time, space, and light.