Capturing dune grass currents through ghost printing in the Provincelands

Recently, I was given a week-long residency at one of the Peaked Hill Trust’s coveted dune shacks located in the Provincelands (May 17-26, 2025). The Ray Wells shack is perched high up on stilts, affording it a view of both sunrise and sunset across the undulating dunes. Captured by the lines and movement of the dune grass oceans and currents around me, I began to go down the rabbit hole of ghost printing. I had originally planned to stick to a muted pallette of colors I was predisposed to associating with the dunes - gray and beige sands, sage and sap greens from the low slung vegetation, sky and ocean blues and pops of pink and white from the rosa rugosa that abounds this time of year…but as I sunk into the majesty of seeing the light without electricity, I saw so many other colors that I decided to portray. The velvety maroons and Prussian blues of 2 am under the stars while hiking up to the outhouse, for example. Or the neon pink and peach melba honey-golden light of the 5 am sunrise. And so much more. I hope you will enjoy this gallery of images from this dune grass series and a little glimpse into my work table inside the shack.