Chasing Motion is a photographic series that captures wildlife through the abstraction of movement. This work grew out of a life altering accident in 2020, when I suffered a brain injury after being hit by a car. In the silence that followed, I rediscovered a way of seeing the world I had known as a child: curious, playful, and full of wonder. This perspective has since become the foundation of my photography.
Using intentional camera movement and slow shutter speeds, I allow shapes, colors, and textures to blur into painterly impressions while still holding on to the essence of the animal. Each image transforms a fleeting encounter into something that lingers, not just seen, but felt.
In Fleeting Hare, the animal’s legendary speed becomes a golden streak cutting through the grass, its form stretching into pure energy. Picasso’s Elephant, inspired by the abstract forms of the painter, celebrates the elephant’s iconic tusks, bright arcs of white that stand out against the motion of its massive frame. Squirrel in a Rush, Tail Adrift captures the agility and unpredictability of its subject mid-leap, with the tail momentarily detached from the body in the blur, a whimsical detail that speaks to its quicksilver nature.
Chasing Motion invites viewers to pause, to sense the rhythm and vitality of life in motion, and to feel the wild as it moves through space and time.