Written Projects
These works form part of an ongoing body of writing developed across poetry, essays, and longer-form texts. They are not discrete outputs, but interconnected movements within a single field of inquiry.
Each project approaches the same underlying conditions—of desire, perception, and time—from a different position.
The Hole
Underlying these works is a developing ontology of desire.
The Hole names a structural condition in which the architecture that once organised identity, meaning, and relation ceases to function as a centre. It is not absence, but the release of centre—the collapse of orbit itself.
From this position, desire no longer produces identity. It persists without a fixed point. What remains is movement without centre, perception without imposed structure, and the possibility of reconfiguration.
The projects below emerge from different stages of that movement—formation, intensification, collapse, and what follows.
Core Works
The Descent Works
A multi-volume body of writing tracing the movement from identity through collapse into structural exposure.
The Final Gate
A fragmentary work built around the architecture of unmaking. It examines the point at which systems—emotional, perceptual, and conceptual—fail to stabilise experience, revealing desire as structural force rather than narrative content.
The Time I Was Exiled from Heaven
Written under the name Johannes Postlapsus, this work examines inherited belief, internalised structures, and the fracture between imposed frameworks and lived perception. It moves through memory, myth, and refusal, exposing the tension between obedience and direct seeing.
The Ithaca Trilogy
The trilogy explores exile, return, and what lies beyond.
The work began in movement—travelling through Vietnam and Thailand, where lived experience and myth began to collapse into one another. The journey was not an illustration of Homer, but a parallel condition: moving through landscape while carrying an inherited narrative of return that no longer held.
Rather than retelling The Odyssey, the trilogy walks alongside it—treating Odysseus not as character, but as structure.
No Ithaca
A work of refusal. It inhabits the space of longing without return, where the idea of home persists but cannot be realised.
Beyond Ithaca
A movement of reckoning. It strips away the mythic frame, confronting the cost of survival and the weight carried beyond the journey.
New Ithaca
The aftermath. A return without resolution, where exile persists within the domestic, and meaning is carried quietly through repetition and observation.
Together, the trilogy traces exile not as event, but as condition.
The Mask of Achilles
An extended work examining identity through the figures of Achilles and his relation to Patroclus.
The project explores the formation of the self through gaze, expectation, and myth. Beauty functions both as surface and burden, shaping behaviour, desire, and perception. Through a series of moments—youth, awakening, intimacy, and fracture—the work examines how identity is constructed, worn, and destabilised.
At its centre is the tension between being seen and being known, and the distance that remains between the two.
Practice-Based Works
After the Click
A practice-based work examining what happens to photographs once they exist.
The project begins from a simple premise: the photograph does not end at the moment of capture. It enters time, and meaning begins to accumulate around it. This accumulation—accretion—is uneven, ongoing, and ethically charged.
Rather than treating the image as fixed, the work describes how it is continually remade through return, sequencing, writing, ownership, and context. Meaning does not resolve. It thickens.
At its centre is an accretive ethics of photography: a recognition that responsibility extends beyond the moment of capture into how images live on—how they are interpreted, reframed, and carried through time.
The work is written from within long practice, not as theory but as condition—what it means to remain answerable to photographs once they exist.
Three Languages of Light
A cross-disciplinary project exploring light as a shared condition across science, art, and spiritual thought.
The work proposes that light operates as a common language through which different fields attempt to articulate the unseen. It examines how observation, perception, and representation converge, positioning light as the interface between matter and consciousness.
Moving between theoretical writing, visual practice, and research-based inquiry, the project treats light not as metaphor alone, but as a structural condition linking how we see, know, and give form to experience.
Associated Works
Death’s Architecture
A work centred on place as the primary agent of formation.
Drawing on lived experience within spaces associated with death, the project examines how environments retain and reorganise memory. Rather than focusing on individuals, it treats architecture as the site where experience accumulates, dissolves, and reconfigures.
The work moves through recurring spaces, dream structures, and remembered interiors, tracing how place shapes perception over time.
Immortal Light
A dual narrative linking the myth of Hadrian and Antinous with a contemporary photographic relationship.
The work examines devotion as a reconstructive act—how memory, image, and repetition attempt to preserve what has already transformed. It questions whether art sustains the beloved or replaces them, and whether what endures is presence or absence reshaped through form.
The two narratives mirror one another, connected through time and held within a single structural inquiry into love, memory, and transformation.
Amara
A ritualised work structured across multiple acts.
It explores perception, identity, and transformation through symbolic narrative, drawing on parable, myth, and philosophical dialogue. The text moves between states of dissolution and recognition, examining how inherited forms shape the self, and how those forms may be seen through.
At its core is the movement from imitation toward direct perception.
The Way of the Ever-Burning Flame
A conceptual and narrative work exploring desire without attachment.
Written under the pseudonym Johannes Postlapsus, it presents a field of inquiry rather than a fixed argument. Through fragments, narrative sequences, and symbolic encounters, it examines the persistence of desire beyond identity and the possibility of movement without fixation.
The work operates as both continuation and reflection—what remains after structure has burned.
The Coalmonster
A novel set in 19th-century New Zealand, blending mythology, environmental narrative, and coming-of-age themes.
The story follows three boys whose lives intersect with a buried, conscious entity embedded within the Earth. Their personal struggles mirror the larger tension between human activity and ecological balance.
The work explores interconnectedness across cultural, natural, and cosmic systems, grounding myth within lived experience.
Closing
These projects are not separate works in the usual sense.
They are multiple approaches to the same condition.
Each begins from a different position—myth, memory, desire, place, body, structure—but none attempts to complete or resolve what it encounters. Instead, each turns the same set of questions through a different angle, testing how far a form can hold before it breaks, shifts, or becomes something else.
No single work is sufficient on its own.
Each is partial by design.
Taken together, they form a field in which the same movement is traced again and again—without repetition.
The work continues from there.